drawing as playground- ‘permission to play’
Drawing is about connecting with yourself, and being free from limiting thoughts. It is about giving yourself permission to play and not worrying about why/ who for/ what for.
This project uses a folding sketchbook as a starting point to draw onto, and this allows for the element of chance and accident to create new ideas.
It allows you to break free from seeing a drawing as something that is permanent or precious.
By working in a ‘book’ it creates a space for you to carry around with you/ use wherever/ come back to.
developing ideas
I like to take my drawings through different processes, to see what exposing them to different treatments will bring.
These drawings were deconstructed and left outside to be weathered in the frost and the rain. Some marks washed away, the paper tearing into fragments which had a tactile quality to them.
Selecting and using some of these fragments to make new drawings came next, by collaging and drawing over pieces of drawings to create a new image.
This image was then made three -dimensional by colour copying it onto acetate and forming it into translucent structures, so that the coloured light could be projected.
These three-dimensional drawings then allow me to create new compositions for printmaking.
