I've been blocked for what seems like forever, so this weekend I made these drawings. I wouldn't call them "my actual work" but at least it's something. I made the third one over the summer, the other 2 this weekend.
I really like these drawings. What is the scale? And how long do they take to make (not because time invested makes them more special or valuable to me, I am just curious)? They seem really simple and really complicated at the same time and so that confuses me. When I first look at them I am concerned only with the process. I am wondering which line or corner do you start from and how to the ebbs and curves and bumps and crevasses begin? Are they intended or forced or do they just happen? And once the begin (the variations in the line) can you stop them or do they just take over.
They look like topographic maps.... duh. But the also look like very finely wrinkled and delicate fabric, which I love. And I like that the process itself appears very organic and how that reflects on the natural landscape that they resemble. Like how a river bed forms and changes over time because of the repetitive motion/flow of water and changing volume. And yet the process is also so complex and time consuming that it also reminds me of weaving. Land and fabric. Weaving and grounding.
I am rereading what I just wrote and I see there is a portion that sounds a little sassy. So, just to clarify, in the fifth line of the previous post, when I said "that confuses me." I don't mean it as a negative - I just mean that it makes me think and look longer.
Carolyn,
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I really like these drawings. What is the scale? And how long do they take to make (not because time invested makes them more special or valuable to me, I am just curious)? They seem really simple and really complicated at the same time and so that confuses me. When I first look at them I am concerned only with the process. I am wondering which line or corner do you start from and how to the ebbs and curves and bumps and crevasses begin? Are they intended or forced or do they just happen? And once the begin (the variations in the line) can you stop them or do they just take over.
They look like topographic maps.... duh. But the also look like very finely wrinkled and delicate fabric, which I love. And I like that the process itself appears very organic and how that reflects on the natural landscape that they resemble. Like how a river bed forms and changes over time because of the repetitive motion/flow of water and changing volume. And yet the process is also so complex and time consuming that it also reminds me of weaving. Land and fabric. Weaving and grounding.
Wait.... why aren't this your "actual" work?
I am rereading what I just wrote and I see there is a portion that sounds a little sassy. So, just to clarify, in the fifth line of the previous post, when I said "that confuses me." I don't mean it as a negative - I just mean that it makes me think and look longer.
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