being and becoming ...

"being and becoming what?", pastel on paper, 1988.

aptly titled for a guy who hasn't posted anything on this blog for eight months ... and the answer to the question is a book in itself - a good book - because it has been one of the most artistically productive years of my life in terms of setting objectives and achieving them ...

no fanfare, grandstanding, or heaps of public adulation - quite the contrary - just slow, methodical, and long deliberate days of hard work with a pile of personal breakthroughs ...

"views of a secret" #2 ...

22"h x 30"w, ink on vellum, 4.'09.

drawing ...

to draw - to produce an image using lines or marks on a surface; using ones’ experience to obtain something from a source; allow air to flow in and upward freely so a fire can burn; take in a breath; left standing for flavor extraction; disembowelment; be the cause of a particular response; to remove; attract, induce to reveal or do something; reach a conclusion by deduction or inference from a set of circumstances; formulate or perceive; finish with an even score; an act of selecting components randomly - dragen, tragen ...

meandering lines, no intent or design - pen to paper - moment by moment - energy, split second commitments - building facts of indifference to gradual interest - evidence - focal distraction - referential attraction - when the eye seems stayed, add another page - natural flows, chi to the pen tip - surface resistance - size, pressure, weight - experience - physics of knowing - intuition - rendition - obliteration - focused attention - balance and harmony - lines looking true to the moment - like music would look - energy passed ...

gorky - tiepolo - twombley - picasso - gehry - hunt - marden - mompo - dufy - masson - kandinsky - rothko - rembrandt - pollock - kline - christo - serra - rockborne - seurat - de chirico - michelangelo - carravagio - ruebens - da vinci - massachio - giotto - duer - klimpt - cezanne - de kooning - miro - beuys - van gogh ...

mind map drawings ...

mind maps, 1 - 3 [ left to right ] .


mind maps, 4 - 6 .


mind maps, 7 - 9 .

mind maps, 1 - 9 . ink on paper. 9" h x 12" w. © november, 2007.