Eileen McHugh - a life remake - is a novel about a sculptor whose creative life ended in the 1970s.
She left no work, but now a collection of her notes and sketches has come in the possession of Mary Reynolds, who is determined to revive the artist's life and rebuild her work. She contacts people who knew Eileen as a child and as a student in London. He follows the artist on a hippie trip to Thailand. Through these partial memories, she recreates the artist and her work.
We imagined an artist who struggled to accomplish anything, left near incomprehension notes, and was probably incapable of using the material. It was an artist who found it difficult to maintain any attention, who seemed to dabble in many forms and apparently undisciplined attention activities spreading so closely in a multitude of ripples that hardly any project came to the enjoyment. The picture is a fund of live works that only creeps into double figures, some of which are questionable attributed, while others may have been reworked with other hands. And imagine a signature work so inefficient production it is literally disintegrating whilst, on a facing wall that in the same room, there is another work, largely unknown, exists despite a different artist, which remains almost anonymous, something that is arguably as beautiful and technically produced better than its neighbor. If asked to assess, how contemporary audiences, coming to this body of work for the first time, might its worth or judge the achievement of its creator?
And how can we judge another artist who is just left in a work, which exists only inbreeding as a contemporary photograph, a few moments in which the work exists? But this artist, now we discover, left a variety of notes, used details and hints of material that are enough to rebuild lost works. Is it not our duty to remake the work of this life, recreate this legacy that can enrich life, change perceptions, and reinterpret the experience? This artist is called Eileen McChug. Previously, the unfocused disabled was called Leonardo da Vinci.
But where can I start a remake of the life and work of an artist like Eileen? We have no work, no studies or even unsuccessful projects waiting to be reassembled. We know very little about her undocumented life, whose floor remained unknown to her own mother as well. But we all leave our mark on time. The challenge of judging them is, and then it becomes possible to describe them. Once again, we can then remake Eileen McHugh's life and rebuild her works to enrich our collective experience. But where to start?
Clearly, London changed everything.
Eileen McHugh - A Life Remade
by Mary Reynolds & Philip Spires (PDF, EPUB, MOBI, AZW3)
Spanish version on the way
Spanish version on the way
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