The first of a planned series of large, 1500 mm tall, drawings begun in March 2017 . I am working on some including figures and flowers ……
The drawings below were sketches for a proposed sculpture for an American football team in Titletown, Wisconsin. I was less surprised that it didn’t proceed than I was to be asked in the first place. After initial puzzlement as to how to tackle it I came to enjoy it.
The designs below, ‘Wall scrolls’, as I think of them, were first drawn on a large scale, 6 or more feet, before scanning. I plan a series fabric hangings. I like the freedom, the added dimension, that digital scanning and printing brings to the process of drawing.
Some of the drawings and prints below came from studies for a print illustrating the folk tale, ‘The musicians of Bremen’, others were from musings on angels, the evolution of wings and beaks, why angels could not in the natural course of evolution have both wings and arms and if not arms they would like birds require beaks – and sundry other thoughts.
The prints below began as mono prints made on an etching press during a residency in Vermont. I later scanned and modified them to create compositions that I imagine as fabric hangings, as indeed the ones below them featuring fighting pheasants and geese. The geese because I heard a talk in which was said that certain geese migrating over the Himalaya’s have been doing so since before the mountains were there. I imagine them every year wondering why the trip is becoming harder to make.
Fading night
The drawings below came from an interest in trying to show the movement, the energy, of birds in flight. Pheasants ordinarily seem rather uninteresting as they either scurry away or explode into flight but I guess their own lives are to them intense enough.
