Mark making is a response to what is in front of me or what I am feeling. It is a form of communication, a record of human energy, a record of being 'there' at that place and that time.
A single line making its way across the paper - that moves while my eyes look, my breathing slows, my hand and body move and marks are made. Something shifts and changes and making the marks, drawing, becomes the inevitable response. I am here in this place and my marks are evidence. Recording my experiences noticing patterns, shapes and lines, layering marks and textures. Developing a series of 'signs' and 'symbols' that are my own - that have meaning and history to me through my work, experience, and history. Making marks is a visual way to share these symbols and allow them to speak to an audience as they will.
It is interesting to look back through sketchbooks from years past and see how this language has developed and become an entity of its own.
Are those marks drawn on paper, painting, encaustic, implied in three dimensions? It doesn't matter. Mark making is the basis of what I do, it is the reason I do it. It is the joy and spiritual connection to those marks, the subject and the place. The marks visually follow the process of investigation and the development on an idea and become the work itself.
A single line making its way across the paper - that moves while my eyes look, my breathing slows, my hand and body move and marks are made. Something shifts and changes and making the marks, drawing, becomes the inevitable response. I am here in this place and my marks are evidence. Recording my experiences noticing patterns, shapes and lines, layering marks and textures. Developing a series of 'signs' and 'symbols' that are my own - that have meaning and history to me through my work, experience, and history. Making marks is a visual way to share these symbols and allow them to speak to an audience as they will.
It is interesting to look back through sketchbooks from years past and see how this language has developed and become an entity of its own.
Are those marks drawn on paper, painting, encaustic, implied in three dimensions? It doesn't matter. Mark making is the basis of what I do, it is the reason I do it. It is the joy and spiritual connection to those marks, the subject and the place. The marks visually follow the process of investigation and the development on an idea and become the work itself.