I don't want to be defensive, though this post is and probably should not be. My drawings certainly are repetitive, and I understand how they one might interpret them as 'obsessive,' but I don't look at them as either. I do not find them repetitive in execution: each iteration on the page is distinct from the ones prior, an act of active forgetting, each an attempt to match the ideal which I have constructed in my head. The process of placing the first drawing on the paper is no different than placing the last.
These are all also the basis for why my drawings are not obsessive - I let go of what I have done previously with ease, I don't let past errors influence my current task. Making more drawings does not add more meaning (meaning is necessitated by a full page taken as a unit). Obsession is rooted in the past, these drawings require the present. My current plan of display will hopefully allow them to be viewed primarily on a holistic scale. Viewing will not jump from one object in a drawing to another to another to another in the repetitive spirit and will shift instead to the drawings as a whole, a creation which is very much not repetitive (see post about patterns).
Intricacy be damned.
ReplyDeleteJeremy, I think it takes a great about of skill to break free of the obsessive qualities of one's work and still produce consistently interesting work. It seems like you are saying your work is not about perfecting the aesthetics, yet somehow they are still balanced pieces artistically. I have some concerns too, but I'd rather talk to you in person, and leave my comment here as positive. Keep it up!
ReplyDeleteDear Dan, I accept, and would love to meet at the armchairs of your choice (or anywhere else, too).
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