Wednesday 14 January 2009

First parley, 22 January: -what is drawing for?


For the first posting, I have asked you to show your most successful recent drawing, and explain why. Submit at least one image and 100-300 words of reflection, analysis and context to support this. It doesn't matter what kind of drawing it is, it can be expressive, communicative, well-finished or the smallest scribble, but it has to have been useful to your practice or your thoughts.

Best wishes from Frances
My drawing was useful for my practice as it was part of a proposal for a wall painting after a series of workshops with kids. They had each made a small object/ drawing in soft garden wire as part of the workshop, and I built them together into a large hanging net, then drew the shadows this cast. In this image we can see the wire net, the drawing, and the shadows. The stage after this was to cast these shadows onto the play space in an arts centre cafe and use that to compose a large colourful wall painting. (The proposal was accepted) To me the value of this image is that it was collaborative and assembled in a way that built an interesting and complex statement from lots of simple stages and units. I had set up the process, but we never knew from one moment to the next what it was going to look like next, but we could trust the assembly.

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