>From: Suzanne Duffy <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Enquiry about a focus for drawing
>Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 19:46:41 +0100
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>Dear All,
>
> This is my first endeavour to make a post and I would be delighted to
>hear peoples views.
----- I guess this is a first for a few of us.
>
> Does anyone feel they work with/from images?
> What do you feel you are working from when you draw?
---- I hope my reply does not pique too many. When i draw i find the
experience a physical record of experience, i consider the process as combat
(martial arts) whereby the body reacts without conscious thought so that the
marks are not considered rational marks which convey image but reactionary
physical marks of felt experience.
>
> Is it memories, new thoughts, hypothetical thoughts, dreams, are you
>applying thoughts to something like an object or place and building from
>there?
-----Memories and thoughts are rational projections of self in scenario's,
i'm trying to by-pass rationality and self to convey a primal experience, an
uneducated, un-civilised sincerity.
>
> How concious are you of how the image is forming and how deliberate are
>you if you are someone who has been drawing for a long time?
-----I never consider the drawing as an image, it's something which echoes
an experience, if it feels right it's done, deliberate is again too
rational, too scopophilic.
>
> Do experienced drawers find you can almost repeat a drawing? or feel that
>your pace is quickened and less tense?
----the second and third times i draw someone, i feel i have a better
understnding of that person psychologically or essentially but whether or
not i can get my drawing to convey that is another question. Sometimes they
work after minutes, sometimes it takes days. I can't work wihout the person
being physically present else i'm not reacting sincerely but creating a
fantasy, there's enough fantasy in the media already for escapists to enjoy.
>
> I find drawing an intense and erratic experience, coupled with my
>emotions towards describing something, I am also not very respectful of the
>process, at least thats how it feels! When drawing from observation I also
>feel overwhelmed by the number of ways I could make an impression or
>response to the subject.
---- Ditto. There's a process of construction and destruction with which the
subject amplifies and intensifies, that which works is sinonomous of the
subject and not self.
>
> I guess I am interested in drawings reflecting people's response to a
>subject.
>
> At present I tend to work more on computer, altering and composing
>images, I am happy that the traditional process or medium has been removed
>from my grasp but don't get me wrong I am aware of contraversies over the
>use of computers and also those who embrace technology as enabling further
>the communication or the expressive process and look to pursue it's
>development more radically.
----- Dispise computers, complete luddite. There's an anal fashion of three
dimensionality with drawing at the moment which is just a fad. The irony of
which remains that the images are often projected onto a two dimensional
surface to view. If this was thirty years ago would we be ejaculating over
the development of the etch a sketch? Baudrillard talks about
self-alienation and atomisation whereby we allow ourselves to be conned into
a sense of freedom, when in actuality we are more encased within a box. Is
the future of human development restricted to 'interfacing' and the
transference of data as opposed to living and experiencing in the physical.
Computers remove the human to sanitise the content, an un-human ideal.
Spike Joyce.
St Martin's College, Lancaster.
>
> What are your views?
>
> Responses greatly appreciated and contrasting views!
>
> Suziexx
>
> Camberwell College of Art, London.
>
>
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