While I enjoy
drawing, photography is my true passion. I would like to complete a twenty-hour
photographic drawing. I will document my progression with a single still of the
entire hour, two hour, or thirty minute segments. I will be drawing with
penlights, flashlights and ambient light within the frame of my 35mm film
camera. I have been working with coating a light sensitive material onto glass
plates, which creates a painterly texture in the final images. By the end of
the project I hope to create a 3D “model”, giving the drawings a space of their
own.
The artists
Herakut have a style that combines gestural and expressionist execution with
fine detail graffiti art. I love the giant scale that they work with and wish
to push my own art in this direction.
Ellen Berkenblit’s
work reminds me that it can be good to just let go and allow the ideas to work
through to the paper on its own. When it comes to placing pen to paper, there
is usually a gigantic roadblock that I have to hurdle over in order to complete
anything that I have set out to do. While the simplicities of Ellen’s figure
work bothers me, I cannot help but appreciate her use of colors, and how she is
able to embrace the sometimes halting strokes and uncontrolled drips within her
work.
Heather Hansen is a
great example of throwing your whole body into the experience of creating art.
Her work is large, simplistic, and feminine.
I am looking
forward to this 20 hour drawing because it will give me a chance to set aside
the intensions of the eye and the hand, and let my entire body have control. This
will, in a sense, give me even more expression of freedom due to the fact that
I am not able to see the “lines” that I have laid down. All I can do is make a mark
and move along. Yippee!