Drawing Thoughts

Hiya

Right, I've got some ideas, after making pancakes, which actually came out rather well. The first one was a bit more of 'batter fritter' but then they got better...with ice cream...and nuttela...yes. Anyway, i'm moving away from art a bit there. Had a good chat about ideas and things for the project with Ava. thinking about how my drawings can be work in the truck environment......thinking about maps, and unfolding things. UNfolding drawings. getting people to look at the work in a different way...give them a nudge to think about the drawings in a slightly different context.....just a nudge....i'm not going to suddenly start making map-o-centric drawings for the sake of it.....its more to do with the presentation mode.........it even starts to move into a bit of performacey stuff.....the idea of documenting/recording the steps i go through to make these drawings is also on my mind.......

today i did a charcoal drawing on 8 pieces of paper stuck together, in the studio (good walls) and heater).....i didn't look at it until it was finished...but took photos of it before i could see the end thing......it's a pretty chaotic drawing.........lots and lots of lines.......with forms and shapes appearing......but lines everywhere.....they seem to be the first thing i draw....before blobs...................like i'm charting (not mapping...aaargh!) out the territory, feeling the space, opr something.........anyway, for the next one i want to see if i can do it with out using lines.....

it's to do with lines being lines and when you come to make a form or a shape, well, it gets me thinking, what do i want this shape/form to be.....and at the moment i'm not so sure (i'm not worried though)........so lines (where you don't have to think so much about what THIS LINE is) are a way in, and happen, the blobs and shapes come after.......well so far they do.......thats what i want to see about tomorow.....blobs first...........then lines.......hmmmmmmmmm, maybe if the blobs become marks, and not actual defined shapes/forms............well they will be, but what if there root is a mark.....or an action.......right.

The drawing i did today was the biggest i've done so far...........i feel the large amount of lines present are indicitive (hmm( of this......it was really big, so i was stretching all over the place to (fill it?).........maybe i didn't know what i wanted to say within in the space....so i was drawing out to the edge..........anyway, when i looked at it at the end (i had an hours break drawing the trees and the long shadows in the garden/grounds)............i felt that the lines where the things that brought it all together and connected the different parts.........the parts being the big forms or arrangement of bits......and that these forms where still quite seperate from each other...so for next time i plan to make bigger forms that use the space more..........and on better paper.....this was all slimey.........and waxy...........i got it from the basement...in the big green cupboard. we also made fancy dress costumes from it..............its got a grid on the other side (drawing on a grid. hmmmmmmm).................right, anyway, tomorow........experiment with folding map idea...do more drawings....in studio space......not in kitchen area....need studio space...........drawing on small pieces of paper....as long as i'm in big studio space may work better......drawing at a desk..........doesn't do it for me.

ok.

There we go,

quite a dense one that one. a little trigger happy on the old full stop button.

HOpe everyones well,

chat soon

h