107597 is a 3 metre long piece of specially printed graph paper in which each millimetre line has been traced over in pen. The accompanying drawings are of blown up photocopies of the original graph paper, each one being enlarged 200% until the last of the image disappeared entirely.Enlarging something is usually considered to be an act that gives more visual information on closer inspection of its content, but, while enlarging an image through photocopying information is lost and gained simultaneously. The image becomes accidentally distorted, the pixellated and patchy enlargements creating a new grid. The drawings of these photocopies are made using the same pen which was used to make the original graph paper drawing; turning the mechanical reproduction back into a handmade one.‘Doing things that could be considered unproductive’ is a quote from an interview with the artist Martijn Hendriks, and has become a kind of mantra for me. The idea of a wall drawing seems particularly relevant to the text; the surface is not a pleasant one to draw onto, the work cannot be sold or re-shown and will eventually be painted over.The ideas that inform the work are ever - evolving and I see each new interpretation of the work and the way in which it is made as important. One idea does not negate another. I see the graph paper drawing as having many layers of meaning. It has at different points become an exploration of what it is to be productive, the following of an external structure;Futility, Obsession, Control.The passing of time.The meditative quality of repetitive mark-making.Human imperfection.“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”Charles Bukowski