Poetic Meditations(??) Burn, line, stoke, cut, strike, wash, dig
Change-Weighted and rooted in the Self.
The self in the moment, an apparent stillness gives ways to poetic meditations. The resulting work is Self referencial and performative. The graphite self portraits studies record a particular psychology, a need to recoonect, an intimate study of change and motion itself. My inability to stay put, and the resulting volume of drawings. The everchanging present moment and its awareness, becomes a way to interrogating the self, or assess how the drawing itself is holding or not holding up to the moment. There is an intimate barrier, between capturing the physicality, but seeing if the physicality will carry the psychological experience. At times, the uninhibited self of Drawings in solitude, opens up and the line and gestures demarcates that internal reality to the external one. When I stroke instead of line, the physical effort seems to make it gestural, and therefore a choreography, where the body’s performance should not be separated from the drawing result. Internal turmoils take over, the drawing becomes a full action movement. At times sublimating melancholia by art making, to expose shame, to remember, conceal and reveal and in that discharge what no longer serves.
>Curiosities: fantasies/fantasias Erotic drawings: the release of real and imaginary
The self in the moment, an apparent stillness gives ways to poetic meditations. The resulting work is Self referencial and performative. The graphite self portraits studies record a particular psychology, a need to recoonect, an intimate study of change and motion itself. My inability to stay put, and the resulting volume of drawings. The everchanging present moment and its awareness, becomes a way to interrogating the self, or assess how the drawing itself is holding or not holding up to the moment. There is an intimate barrier, between capturing the physicality, but seeing if the physicality will carry the psychological experience. At times, the uninhibited self of Drawings in solitude, opens up and the line and gestures demarcates that internal reality to the external one. When I stroke instead of line, the physical effort seems to make it gestural, and therefore a choreography, where the body’s performance should not be separated from the drawing result. Internal turmoils take over, the drawing becomes a full action movement. At times sublimating melancholia by art making, to expose shame, to remember, conceal and reveal and in that discharge what no longer serves.
>Curiosities: fantasies/fantasias Erotic drawings: the release of real and imaginary
Burn
Desires and Repulsions
September 2023
September 2023
Cut
Drawing study.48x52 inches
Cold press Arches Aquarelle paper, natural white, 356gsm-156 lb
Graphite and graphite watercolor pencil.
Video: Tello drone footage edited on A.Express and A. Premiere.
September 2023
Cold press Arches Aquarelle paper, natural white, 356gsm-156 lb
Graphite and graphite watercolor pencil.
Video: Tello drone footage edited on A.Express and A. Premiere.
September 2023
Stroke
Drawing study.48x52 inches
Cold press Arches Aquarelle paper, natural white, 356gsm-156 lb
Graphite and graphite watercolor pencil.
Video: Tello drone footage edited on A.Express and A. Premiere.
September 2023
Cold press Arches Aquarelle paper, natural white, 356gsm-156 lb
Graphite and graphite watercolor pencil.
Video: Tello drone footage edited on A.Express and A. Premiere.
September 2023
Drawing study.48x52 inches
Cold press Arches Aquarelle paper, natural white, 356gsm-156 lb
Graphite and graphite watercolor pencil.
Video: Tello drone footage edited on A.Express and A. Premiere.
September 2023
strike
The Anatomy of Melancholy. 6min
I smash a Piñata constructed out of a shredded copy of the book entitled The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostics, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up, by Robert Burton, first published in 1621.
Uncover: Altered Books exhibition, Paper Nautilus Bookstore, Providence RI, 2019.
I smash a Piñata constructed out of a shredded copy of the book entitled The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostics, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up, by Robert Burton, first published in 1621.
Uncover: Altered Books exhibition, Paper Nautilus Bookstore, Providence RI, 2019.
Build
wash
watercolors
December, 2018
Dig
Charlestown RI August, 2019
