Blind drawing is a practice that i have kept going since my first year, when I went to a pub event with an illustration group called 'drink and draw'. I felt such an affinity with the technique that I kept the thread running through my personal sketchbooks, which are a huge part of how I process life and remain in my practice whether or not I am at uni. An aspect of the practice that I love is the idea of ''accountability'' in art making. I see the technique as a kind of escape from accountability; the work creates itself, and if it doesn't fit into my interpretation of 'good' art, it's not my fault. I have questioned many times whether blind drawing is me putting more trust in my eye or my hand; I am bolder and more confident in my drawing when I don't look at the page, but the observing itself becomes keener and more intimate. I often blind draw people without asking first, and if my hands are concealed, the moment can become unsettling for them when they become aware of my searching stare of their face and form, unbroken by looking at the page.
I would like to approach the idea of taking these drawings and this technique further. The moment of their creation is so fast, and very satisfying, but I would love there to be more life in them than a page. I have thought about casting the drawings and creating a kind of mobile, and screen printing them is also satisfying, but there needs to be a point to it, and so far I haven't found one. I have thought about doing longer studies of rooms and people and also nudes, which, even if it doesn't enter into any 'finished' or presentable work, serves me well as it opens me up and makes the process of creating work easier in other areas.
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