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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