series of 3 drawings, 2005
The drawings in the seies Pentagraphs represents the first seventeen bars of the cello part of Shostakovich’s Concerto No. 1 for Cello in E-flat major (op. 107), 1959. It employs a method inspired by an 11th century musical notation/memorization system which was devised by Guido d’Arezzo to conduct. It uses the hand, assigning each part of every finger a specific note.