What you describe sounds like a communication process
to me, that you happen to be both the author and
audience of such a process is an aside.
It doesn't need to be overtly political, or anything
else, though I do wonder about the relationship
between 'truth and politics'.
--- Rachel Pearcey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> It doesn't matter what my drawings communicate
> because I am not drawing to
> teach or make some sort of political point. I draw
> for me. Once I am
> satisfied with a drawing then it is done and
> finished and I can let it go
> (or even sell it!!!!!) Finished is when I know it is
> done, it is enough, it
> is whole.
>
>
> On 18/9/05 8:01 pm, "mark hill"
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > I suppose that for me the condition of seeing is
> > informed by my other senses, touch and hearing for
> > example, they seem inseparable.
> >
> > If it's immaterial what your drawing communicates
> to
> > anyone else, why do you feel the need to release
> them
> > out into the world, 'to hold their own
> conversation'.
> > They could do that in a cupboard. When you release
> > work into the community its members will (quite
> > rightly) act as interpreters.
> >
> > Of course, in a studio context one is mostly
> concerned
> > with practice for its own sake, irrespective of
> what
> > an audience might want. Communicate in the context
> of
> > what I said, doesn't presuppose an audience, but
> > refers to the articulation of thoughts and ideas
> > through drawing.
> >
> > You're quite right about simplification. It's a
> very
> > tricky thing, and when drawing is thought about a
> > great deal, it becomes a very difficult thing to
> > define, that's its charm and continued
> significance
> > for dealing with the bigger questions, like
> 'truth'.
> >
> > I for one am probably most happy when I'm not sure
> > what it is, but that I somehow have the means to
> find
> > out about other things when I use it. Great tool,
> > drawing!
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Rachel Pearcey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> Perhaps I am over simplifying or maybe I'm not
> sound
> >> oriented enough. But
> >> for me 'plain old drawing' is about looking and
> >> seeing and truth.
> >>
> >> I don't quite understand your last paragraph. I
> >> don't think my drawing is an
> >> attempt to communicate, if by communicate you
> mean
> >> with someone else. My
> >> drawing is between me the paper and the object
> (or
> >> the abstraction). If the
> >> finished drawing satisfies me then it is
> immaterial
> >> what it communicates to
> >> anyone else. If it is 'right' then I can let it
> go
> >> out into the world to
> >> hold its own conversation.
> >>
> >> I will be at the Art College on Topsham Road, it
> >> might be fun to meet up,
> >> Maulfry (my spellchecker is very unhappy with
> your
> >> name, would it be
> >> impolite to ask where it comes from?)
> >>
> >> Rachel
> >>
> >>
> >> On 18/9/05 10:41 am, "mark hill"
> >> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'd love to know what 'plain old drawing' is.
> I've
> >>> never encountered it, although people frequently
> >> speak
> >>> as though it did.
> >>>
> >>> If the lowest common denominator-type definition
> >> of
> >>> drawing is: marks made in an effort to
> >> communicate,
> >>> then sound (thankfully) is definitely in!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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