June has been a month of reassessment, organization, and letting go of things. I'm in the studio now. I have been using tools all morning. Ladders are my friend.
I know that this is just a matter of getting my brain and my body ready to make some new art. Everything is moving around in my head. The me and the studio haven't been ready to accept new work. Soon though... Today has been a day of clearing surfaces and putting things away.
Maybe I will be able to tear some paper and get it ready for new drawings.
It's been difficult to concentrate on making new work while my show has been happening. Everything I have been doing has been in support of the show —telling people about the drawings writing and telling people about the work — being immersed in the drawings.
It's hard to be in the present when all you do is talk about the past.
I've been working on some ideas for creating better task lighting in the studio. The current situation includes several 8 foot work lights. These give me headaches after extended exposure so I need to make a change.
I've begun a new series of drawings that are based on drawing 18 lines.
I draw 18 lines with the same grade of graphite without resharpening. While drawing I can't think of anything but the line and what number it is in the set of the marks.
Everything is about the line.
It I lose track of the line things happen.
These are large drawings for me. 30 x 40 inch Rives BFK white.
It's one of a small series. This was shown in my solo show in 2010. It's a drawing using pastel, pencil, graphite, and charcoal on Rives BFK. It's one of my larger drawings at 30 x 40 inches, was created 2008, and first shown in 2010.
I've begun a new series of drawings. Again on synthetic paper. It's really the smoothness of the paper that motivates the most recent work. Everything sits on the surface.