Point form of Fourth Year
Posted by Jona8than | | Posted On Monday, February 11, 2008 at 2:16 p.m.
“Drawing for me is about fluidity. There may be a vague sense of what you're going to draw but things occur during the process that may modify, consolidate or shed doubts on what you know. So drawing is a testing of ideas: a slow-motion version of thought. It does not arrive instantly like a photograph. The uncertain and imprecise way of constructing a drawing is sometimes a model of how to construct meaning. What ends in clarity does not begin that way.”
William Kentridge, pressPlay
“Finally, drawing is the medium that most sensitively registers the vulnerabilities and subtleties of being human. This has something to do with the touch, with the unmediated impression of hand on surface. "I like the sense of intimacy," Ed Pien says. "When I'm drawing I'm dealing with a small area but that area is so big in my head that when I glance at it I can see the whole world in front of me."
Robert Enright, Dehuman exhibition catalogue
Mainly large scale drawings, on paper and board. Media of graphite, charcoal, and possibly tar.
Media is of contrasts substances, one very fragile, and one very substantial. The same could be said of the supports. A range of mark making can be explored with all choices.
An exploration of the process of drawing, the concepts of death, mortality, apocalypse, destruction, violence,etc.
“I want to go to a place that’s seems like it’s at the end of the world. A vantage point from which one can stand and peer out in to the void—the world beyond…there is nothing to lean on. No references…
You finally realize that the void is yourself. It is like some huge mirror for your mind. Clear and uncluttered, it is the opposite of our urban distractive spaces. Out here, the unbound mind can run free. Imagination reigns. Space becomes a projection screen. Inside becomes outside. You can see what you are.”
Bill Viola
Will be using the subject and concepts matter of deserts, barrens, oceans,etc. to represent this idea of the void and absence. The paper is like these spaces, and it is a space itself, it can become the mirror for the mind.
My work is informed by artists such as Ed Pien, William Kentridge, Marcel Dzama, Toba Khedoori along with a background of science fiction authors and their book covers, as well as graphic novels and comic books.
Performance and video may factor in to the work as well, but it will be consistent with the drawings. Exploring the interaction of the subject matter and the artist as a drawing is created. This idea is still in the “thought” phase.
Formal elements of drawing will becomes part of the subject, vanishing points of perspective in particular and ... hopefully.
William Kentridge, pressPlay
“Finally, drawing is the medium that most sensitively registers the vulnerabilities and subtleties of being human. This has something to do with the touch, with the unmediated impression of hand on surface. "I like the sense of intimacy," Ed Pien says. "When I'm drawing I'm dealing with a small area but that area is so big in my head that when I glance at it I can see the whole world in front of me."
Robert Enright, Dehuman exhibition catalogue
Mainly large scale drawings, on paper and board. Media of graphite, charcoal, and possibly tar.
Media is of contrasts substances, one very fragile, and one very substantial. The same could be said of the supports. A range of mark making can be explored with all choices.
An exploration of the process of drawing, the concepts of death, mortality, apocalypse, destruction, violence,etc.
“I want to go to a place that’s seems like it’s at the end of the world. A vantage point from which one can stand and peer out in to the void—the world beyond…there is nothing to lean on. No references…
You finally realize that the void is yourself. It is like some huge mirror for your mind. Clear and uncluttered, it is the opposite of our urban distractive spaces. Out here, the unbound mind can run free. Imagination reigns. Space becomes a projection screen. Inside becomes outside. You can see what you are.”
Bill Viola
Will be using the subject and concepts matter of deserts, barrens, oceans,etc. to represent this idea of the void and absence. The paper is like these spaces, and it is a space itself, it can become the mirror for the mind.
My work is informed by artists such as Ed Pien, William Kentridge, Marcel Dzama, Toba Khedoori along with a background of science fiction authors and their book covers, as well as graphic novels and comic books.
Performance and video may factor in to the work as well, but it will be consistent with the drawings. Exploring the interaction of the subject matter and the artist as a drawing is created. This idea is still in the “thought” phase.
Formal elements of drawing will becomes part of the subject, vanishing points of perspective in particular and ... hopefully.
