“Eddies of Thought”, 2019. These meditative drawings, completed over the past six months, grew out of the need to focus solely on the page at hand, to the exclusion of all other thoughts.
The earlier drawings started with a few algorithms: the lines must be parallel and no lines could cross one another; circles and straight edges could be traced but needed to be exact; if a slight deviation occurred, the following lines must be laid down in such a way as to incorporate that deviation. The deviations quickly became obstacles that diverted the flow and those flows began to take on directions of their own.
The white parts of the paper began to compete. The pens ran out of ink, mid-stream. Adjustments had to be made. Best of all, space began to be created within the two-dimensionality of some of the lines; as a result, swirls and eddies appeared and new forms emerged.
The earlier drawings started with a few algorithms: the lines must be parallel and no lines could cross one another; circles and straight edges could be traced but needed to be exact; if a slight deviation occurred, the following lines must be laid down in such a way as to incorporate that deviation. The deviations quickly became obstacles that diverted the flow and those flows began to take on directions of their own.
The white parts of the paper began to compete. The pens ran out of ink, mid-stream. Adjustments had to be made. Best of all, space began to be created within the two-dimensionality of some of the lines; as a result, swirls and eddies appeared and new forms emerged.