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When I made this work, drawing as an action felt beyond my own range of entitlement. I cannot explain except to say that this had something to do with my background as a performer. I made Pluck to Make a Mark because I wanted to draw with a material to which I was uniquely entitled: a material that had little or no value to anyone else, my own hair. Plucking was an action through which I could address failure, shame and the translation of time into an entropic activity like plucking. 0 For the work I plucked and attached my hair to cartridge paper and generated a series of drawings, 4 of which made it into this footage. As a material for composition, plucked hair could be attached to the paper only once with no adhesive. In this way the material resisted editing and each composition was a one-off, entirely dependent on an intuitive relationship with a material sourced from my own body. Pluck to Make a Mark, 2005
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