I've gotten really interested in drawing this summer. Another thing I've avoided (for years!) and am really re-fired up about.
So I find myself more and more interested in what others are doing with drawing. And I notice that my own notions of what a drawing is can be so confining.
If you live in New York, The Drawing Center in Soho can be great for breaking open your head on that subject. I remember seeing a piece there which was essentially a tent in which small holes had been poked to allow light through. Inside, you saw "the drawing".
And seeing the word in quotes like that makes me wonder about the etomology of the word. How is it that an art form is named with a word that also refers to a process in which we are attracted, absorbed, changing shape, to name just a few synonyms.
What draws us in? What draws us out?
May your day be filled with the Magic Medicine of drawing.
So I find myself more and more interested in what others are doing with drawing. And I notice that my own notions of what a drawing is can be so confining.
If you live in New York, The Drawing Center in Soho can be great for breaking open your head on that subject. I remember seeing a piece there which was essentially a tent in which small holes had been poked to allow light through. Inside, you saw "the drawing".
And seeing the word in quotes like that makes me wonder about the etomology of the word. How is it that an art form is named with a word that also refers to a process in which we are attracted, absorbed, changing shape, to name just a few synonyms.
What draws us in? What draws us out?
May your day be filled with the Magic Medicine of drawing.
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