GLENN LOWRY: Gabriel Orozco made this work by spitting toothpaste onto graph paper.
OROZCO: In the First Was The Spitting I was interested in the accident, or how we think that things are stable. We think that things have a pattern, and there are some rules or something, and then accidents happen, that break the rule, that makes these grids, or this structure collapse momentarily.
So what I have tried to do in this drawings is to generate an accident on the grid. We could think for example, the streets should be flat and perfect, in the grid of the city. But then we always have these puddles of imperfections in the pavement, and water stays there, and is something that we try to avoid but they are always there. So some of my drawings are like puddles, in a way.
I was interested in the beginnings. And, in terms of drawing, I think that what to draw is something quite interesting; I mean, for an artist, what to draw? So I think that the spitting, it was a very direct way to formulate the beginning of something. And we think that the beginning, in theory, the beginning of the universe is a bubble. And is a big bang, we are coming out from an explosion or from an accident, I think. So I think it is a little bit of a ironical comment about this idea of the beginning of something.
