Wrote a short text for the catalogue of 'Maquettes' – a show of small study-type works curated by Robert Moon at Now Show Space.
'...Maquettes speak the common language of thinking through making. In some ways they catch an artist’s work at the point where it isn’t quite so far from another’s. It’s where they go from here that difference and identity really seem to set in. Or set in much more emphatically – because of course we can already point to difference and identity. Both Moon’s and Tuttle’s ‘completed’ works retain maquette-like qualities, yet the way they retain these qualities, the degree to which they retain these qualities is totally different. Tuttle's sliding scale from ‘maquette’ to ‘finished’ is so short it’s practically un-observable, while Moon makes a balletic leap between the two definite but related positions, each perpetually pointing back to the other. Moon’s paintings are semi-pristine, visual-thought-objects; the maquettes their crumpled baby photos. Worlds apart in size and finish, both are paper aeroplanes thrown at the possible...'
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