I’ve been a bit quiet, preparing the space and materials for some new studio work… provoked by my decision to begin a new long-term series of physical drawings.
If I had to choose, I would probably have to say that drawing, that act of scratching out something with marks and colour on some surface or other, is my first language… And for many reasons, no doubt revealed in the many and various motivations of all my performance work over the years, I’ve always understood my drawings and paintings primarily as acts and objects, rather than simply pictures.
Which I guess is why I so rarely share them online, as the documentation can only ever really assert the image… and why I tend to limit my posts here to the photo and graphic work, that doesn’t need translation.
But I will try to share something of these coming drawings, as and however they develop…
One thing I do know from the start, is that I’m calling and thinking about these new drawn works as a series of ‘small dilemmas’... I’ll be using the tags #dilemma and #smalldilemmas on related notes. Any of my visuals with those tags here will be part of this process, original, and entirely hand drawn.
To open, a few fragmentary details of what’s currently taking shape on the paper here in front of me… and might, if it survives the process, become my first dilemma…
#drawing #drawn #artwork #artist #art
