Luke Aitken

There are no pictures on the scorecard

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Image of a large, screenprinted golf glove, displayed over a plan chest

Golf, Memories and Photographs

There is a phrase in Golf: "There are no pictures on the scorecard"...

You would say it to a friend after you both shot the same score but in very different ways. It basically means that the route, process, or experience doesn't matter because it is not documented. After all is said and done we will have amassed our own scorecards over a lifetime, composed of family photos, sentimental objects, and videos. What do these objects and images actually tell us? Are they honest? Do they change over time? There are no pictures on the scorecard.

The objects:

1. Screenprint - Ink on greyboard

Family photo re-created by hand printing a layer of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. Exploring how far a photograph can be pushed visually before is no longer understood as an objective recording of experience.

2&3. Screenprint - Ink on previously marked golf scorecards

Exploring how memories might not necessarily be these fixed, constant recollections but porous and ever changing abstractions, even when recorded, documented or stored in external objects.

4. Publication - Ring bound, Digital & Screenprinted

Collection of all graphic experiments from within the “There are no pictures on the scorecard” project, alongside written explanations on varied paper stocks.

5. Business “Cards” - Engraved Pencils

Inspired by the countless golf course pencils I have accumulated over the years.

6&7. ‘Front Nine’ & ‘Back Nine’ - Motion graphic made with old family videos

Exploring how the medium of the external memory storage devices can influence how we interpret them. This motion graphic is composed of multiple different families videos and yet remains entirely familiar.

8. Screenprint - Ink on mounted paper

Exploring through imperfections in print and romant-icised colour how mundane objects can become complex, shifting artefacts that we understand as being containers for memory, even old golf gloves.

9. Collection of Prints - A1 prints stored in plan chest

Please interact and explore the differences and changes in the numerous different prints of the same object stored within the plan chest.

Dumb God Poems

In the 1800's, children were given a 'Hornbook' to learn their alphabet, they instead misused the small leather object as a bat. A century later, this now notorious misuse led to a new object, the 'Battledore' (another name for a bat). This edition was still meant to teach children their alphabet and had the Lords prayer on the back to help with upper and lower case. This to me was another instance of misuse, but it was misusing religeous texts as a childrens educational tool. Another century later, and I made 'Dumb God Poems', where I misused an educational tool (newspapers) to make poetry. (The name dumb god poems was extracted from the Lords prayer present on the Battledore.

Series of three publications

- Digitially printed body pages with Letterpress covers

Family Photographs and Surface

Putting Family Photographs Where They Don't Belong

Exploring how the surface of a photograph influences how it is understood and interpreted. Including a three metre squared billboard of a photograph of myself and my siblings as children in a busy junction in Edinburghs city centre/