Charles Gaines (B. 1944)

‘The idea for the Explosion Drawings series came to me after I made the machine-sculpture "Airplanecrashclock" in 1997. That work was a continuous repetition of an airline crash occurring as part of a construction of a downtown city scene. I got the idea of doing the drawings after constructing the crash scene. I noticed that that process of constructing the scene was a lot like painting and drawing. […] "Explosion Drawings" was realized by focusing on the explosion itself without reference to a specific event or accident. My interest in the social context of the accident remained, and in response, I realized the "appendix", a text that accompanies the drawing.’
Charles Gaines