Monday, November 15, 2010

Drawing

This is part of a 4-step process of drawing. This is the first product: a drawing. Although it is considered, in the traditional sense, a video, I chose the camera as my tool, to make a drawing about a certain state of consciousness. For example, when riding a bike, I become more aware of my environment than I would by walking. It's the motion of your wheels and your legs going up and down, making the wheels go forward that perhaps triggers this hyper-awareness of your environment, which in turn, somehow, opens up the imagination. When I draw, I get the similar effect. But instead, I become hyper-aware of the environment created within the drawing.
The project here is that I must create 2 obstructions for myself, (like in the film, Five Obstructions. In the film, Lars Von Trier gives Jørgen Leth the task of remaking The Perfect Human 5 times, with a different obstruction/obstacle each time). Below, are some drawings (my 1st obstruction). They are made while watching my first product (the filmed drawing here), without any specific intent other than pure expression (...is expression an intention?). Then the last obstruction is a drawing made from the remains of a performance I did, biking over ice. I chose to use the meditative process from the performance, and create a meditation drawing.







aprox. 25cm x 40cm
charcoal, acrylic paint, oil pastel and graphite
2010




175cm x 100cm
graphite on thawed ink droplets using a bike tire. (confusing yet?)
2010

No comments: