Daniel Hignell: extracts from ‘…as a process of line-making’

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Stand for a moment in every corner Touch every wall or edge Climb as high and as low As you can Measure the length of the ________ The density of furnishings From corner to corner or tip to tip Test register and range Resonance and return Perhaps by forcing notes at differing intervals From the lungs / atrium / chamber First with gravitas and Then later with grace
With chalk or pencil negative resin ash Make at least seven impressions and Spread them before you as you undertake the work
Begin at any point and travel in a non-linear fashion employing either long-held ______ inflected with minor undulation or many inconsistent jumps between disparate states Suggest a largely ascendant arc or exponential progression perhaps gaining or shedding definition as it moves forth Return to any point at will

Daniel Hignell

Daniel Alexander Hignell-Tully is an artist, writer and researcher, whose work explores participation, experimentation, and the relationship between sense and sensation. Often striving to locate avant-garde practices within everyday contexts, he completed a PhD in 2017 based around the utility of text as a means of ‘scoring’ everyday creativity. His academic writing has been published in several notable journals, as well as contributing a chapter to the Conterpress published book Art/Law/Power. He produces music under the moniker Distant Animals, and runs the micro-label Difficult Art and Music. He has completed two novels that not even his wife will read, and is currently working on a third. 

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