Although I set up a specific task for my Reflective Journal, at the same time I was working to organise various practice ideas from my past practice to understand and develop my own thought process. Like many others, I have always been interested in making images from found shapes. Here are some of those ideas. The above found image is from my son's blanket.
Making and deriving shapes is part of mark making and drawing. I have a childhood story that relates to the above visuals. Once as a very young kid, I went for a sleepover at my cousin's place. The room where I went to sleep was dark, and I was a little scared when I went to bed. By midnight for some unknown reason, I woke up and witnessed moving images of some old aged big-sized people. Scary faces with a creepy sound from the door... they kept haunting me. I got really frightened. They were two to three and changing faces in between, all behind that door. I closed my eyes but kept sneak peeking. This is one of those horror stories from childhood. I don't remember when I went back to sleep.
Next morning, the day was bright again. The first thing I looked for was that door. I realised there were lots of clothes of different shapes hanging behind that door, and their shadows on the back wall had been haunting me all night by the door movements and sounds from the hinges. They were not scary anymore.
Since then I got interested in this and always looked for shadows that are formed by hanging clothes behind doors. In my recent art practice I have decided to bring these back to my work. The above is a recent image from my room on an unorganised Sunday.
What would I do If I have one free day or unlimited days?
It feels as if empty surfaces provoke me to play and perform with them. Always inviting me to fill the gaps and emptiness that exists mutually. It may look weird at times, but it is always very fulfilling and a fun thing to do. By the way, I drink green top, and the bottle was not mine.
A living 'Not a day without a line' life is not always easy, especially on busy days when one does not find a free moment. Then this is another possble time for a quick sketch, provided by nature. Whenever I change for a tissue roll, I feel as if I am wasting a valuable empty canvas. Then sometimes, I try to draw something on it or just leave some marks on it, without taking my work environment into consideration.
The dinner table in the kitchen allows more time for a detailed drawing on an empty roll. Its three-dimensional brown empty surface allows more playfulness and gives movement in drawing. Portions of the drawing gets hidden at the back side, and sometimes you roll it again to see what was happening. The meanings and shapes of the visuals are again an autograph of my drawings.
Some years ago, I did a series of sketches using text and calligraphy. Like some other ideas, these didn't get explored in full. Although I did make a couple of drawings in the past, I feel like producing some new so I can justify these ideas too. One Day.....!!!
Some of the empty toilet rolls get brought to my studio where I can spend more time with them. But in general these are some of the developing ideas for my art practice, and with research in practice, these are getting developed with each passing day.
“Harrison and Wood (2001) conclude in their summary of 20th century art, that art can and should be understood within the bounds of up-to-date contemporary thought. This paper suggests that shared emotional interactions in the drawing process can be understood within the context of contemporary research in terms of both Phenomenological and Positivist theory. I am not arguing that either approach is sufficient, but that both may be necessary, in understanding the place of emotion in interactive socially constructed realities between artist, model and audience..”
Jan Keene, Tracey, Drawing the interactive emotional relationship between artist, subject and audience, Norwich University of the Arts, Aug 2013
Reflection-on-Action And Drawing-on-Banana do not necessarily co-relate.
An Apple a Day or a Banana, or any Fruit, or any Vegetable....What about drawing it? or drawing on it.
