DUNCAN McKELLAR

During October 2017 I began a series of train journeys between London to Beijing. I drew continuously for every waking moment of the 21 day journey using a device called a Pantoscope. This immersive drawing exercise was completed using 54 scrolls of paper. The total length of the drawing measures 540 meters. Upon returning to the U.K I added watercolour to each scroll before filming them rolling past a camera. Sound which was digitally recorded on route was then meticulously added. This process (although not continuous) took 4 years. The resulting animation lasts 7 hours 14 minutes and documents travelling from the U.K through France, Belgium, Germany, Belarus, Russia, Mongolia and into China.