Good advice.
Though I totally subscribe to Stephen Farthing's statement, I
seriously doubt it is resticted only to format. Format is important
but it can become stifling if you agonise about it over every piece
of work created. As Doris says, a fluid approach is best in my
limited experience.
Ultimately the context of a drawing outside the insular thought
processes of the artist is crucial if it is to have any value to
anyone beyond the artist her/himself. But somehow your concern about
that context must not be allowed to dominate the actual creative
process, otherwise as we've all probably experienced, flow dries up
in the blink of an eye.
Damian.
On 28 May 2008, at 10:13, Doris Rohr wrote:
Hi Lucy
Sketchbook or not seems quite irrelevant to the act of drawing . If
you think the work is better off staying isolated, then keep it
'single' and perhaps honour its value to you by framing it
sensitively (sometimes a small drawing looks best in a box frame,
presented like a precious ancient relic).
Mounting work can lift it, but can also destroy it - that needs a
good pair of eyes trained in these matters, and best probably not
decided by yourself but with the help of an artistic framer or the like.
Other options are to organise sheets of drawings in boxes - you are
archiving your work depending on your criteria (subject matter, date,
journey, narrative, or simply size). The advantage of boxes are that
the decision can be temporary and you can move things around again
and select drawings for different contexts and situations from it.
Your collection of drawings would become a drawing library/archive.
Another option is to fix a narrative and sequence by actually making
a book out of your collection of not-bound drawings out of hindsight
- this way you would edit material and give it a type of frame in
book form rather than with a picture frame.
I would look at your dilemma as a positive one, as it opens up many
possibilities from exhibition and framing to installation and artist
book format. the world is your oyster. Have a play and not worry, and
don't fix anything too early.
Doris
On 28 May 2008, at 09:53, Lucy O'Donnell wrote:
> What happens to us our drawings and our sketchbooks if we remove/
> take away
> any pages from the "sketchbook"?
>
> ...
>
> At the moment am wondering (and asking) what should I do with some
> small
> drawings that I did not make in a sketch book. I am unsure what
> "role" they
> are playing for me or my work. Is that clumsy? In the opinion of
> Stephen
> Farthing, " A drawing should take into account the role it plays in
> the
> world beyond the imaginations of artists designers".
>
>
> I would appreciate any thoughts or reactions,
> Thanks
>
> Lucy
>
>
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fIne and applied art
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