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Monday, November 20, 2006
My turn
My turn- Douglas, a bunch of drawings I'll be sending you. Disposable, in a way. A lot of black and white.As I said, I wanted to make drawings of four things: stars, trees, mountains, waves. I'm getting two out of three here, hinting at two. There's something appealing about making very iconic, graphically clear images like this. Stars- we all learn to make a five-pointed star in five strokes. But you can twist it and turn it. And it's part of a basic vocabulary, like square, circle, triangle, stripes- I want to make the star an abstract shape as much as possible, but there's no way to escape the nostaligia and symbolism of the star (sort of like Dine's hearts, I guess).
These are all on non-valuable paper, scraps, extras, cast-offs.
Here's what I'm sending you:
"Waves"- charcoal and white crayon on kraft paper- about fifteen. Handcut- no attempt to make squared formats. Recently, in George Lawson's studio he outlined a number of paintings he's planning to make, and one uses the wave motif. He pointed to a graphic sample of curving waves- I borrowed that, and you can them below, along with other kinds of waves- hatches, inverted Vs, rolling Os.
"Stars"- ink, and some with white gouache, on telephone book pages. There are around thirty of these.
"Mountains" and other images- ink on old school notebook pages you gave me; some are ballpoint, some are marker.
These are all intentionally "open" drawings, hopefully something you can work on top of. Perhaps you can think of these as second generation found surfaces, and find a way to do what you do in reponse to something a bit foreign.
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