While normally my work is quite minimal, in these drawings I’m withholding the final decisions about tones, planes, and placement of the object on the sheet of paper for as long as possible. This delay allows me the opportunity to question my assumptions and survey numerous options before committing to a particular one.
The resulting multitude of marks creates images that occupy for me that liminal space between abstraction and representation, between gesture and studied passage, in effect exploring those almost unrecognizable images that I work with in animation. I'm pushing off the image rather than trying to reproduce it, placing as much focus on the act of searching-seeing as on the object itself. While some of the drawings appear abstract, if you read them closely, the material object that I'm referencing does begin to take shape.
aug02_10
black pencil on paper, 8 1/2 X 11 inches, 2010
My hand holding the drawing board while I draw the model's head
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