I made more. I don’t quiet understand the direct nature of the vertical forms, but intuitively I do. They have agency but not body. They exist yet remain unavailable. As I draw I’m looking for a specific composition and feel, but I don’t know till I see it. The blackness around them feels important and adds to a generative feel for me.
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‘From nothing comes something’
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The collaging is self-indulgent, there is just something delicious about the waxed paper, and the way it takes a crease. I wonder if I am trying to sculpt when I collage and layer, previously I have made collographs and the same thought occurs then.
Is there a place of drawing and making occupy the same piece/space?
What does it look like?
How can I capitalise on it? Or am I trying to combine two things that are genuinely separate entities?
I also notice that number 7 is my favourite right now and that I have departed from the clear vertical columns. Will they translate up larger? Somehow I want more craft and beauty, more draughtsmanship. It feels ok to play with abstract in my sketchbook but I want the dialogue to remain accessible in some form. Or does it?
Am I doing too much on behalf of the audience? Should I trust them to interpret? To paraphase Roland Barthes -’ the audience becomes the author’