Zero

2016, pen and ink on 300gsm Arches paper, 76x56cm. Photography credit: Document Photography.

Zero is a pen and ink drawing composed through the repeated inscription of the word zero. The text is scribed continuously across the surface, each word placed in relation to the last, extending outward to form the image. Working under magnification, Fielden's field of view is reduced to a minute area, keeping attention fixed on the immediate act of inscription rather than the overall composition. The drawing unfolds incrementally, without a predetermined form, allowing the structure to emerge through the process of writing. As the word is repeated, language dissolves into a dense field, shifting from legibility to abstraction. What is written becomes surface and texture, the form resolving itself through repetition rather than layering or design. The work operates at the threshold of action, where form emerges and zero grows.