Archive for August, 2009

Back to the basics

After finishing up with my one-man show in the first week of August, I felt energized and exhausted. I had a lot of ideas of how to move forward. Too many in fact. I felt stymied. In order to get back to basics I thought I would just focus on drawing for a while. Because of its permanent nature oil painting feels like making an important statement that needs to speak to all the painting that came before it and justify the hundreds of years it could stick around. Drawing however feels more like an exploration that can be picked up on a whim and disposed of without too much trouble. If I don’t like, toss it into recycling. I started by drawing simple objects around the house. This toothpaste tube seemed to speak to me, something of the loneliness and sadness it must feel being mauled and squeezed without much thought. Who knew it had so much to say? And I wouldn’t have heard it unless I drew it.