Archive for October, 2009

Larger than life

After finishing a drawing I tape it to the wall of my studio to let it sit around for a while. It takes a while for the true worth of a work to come through. You have to forget the reasons you originally chose to do it and let is stand on its own right. One thing I found interesting about this drawing and  on one thing you can’t see on this website is the size of it. I drew this self-portrait on large paper and the head is about 50% larger than mine is in real life. (Insert joke about my big head here.) I noticed that almost all of the drawings I felt worthy of keeping were also larger than life by about the same percentage. Somehow this takes the object out of the realm of reality and gives it a meditative quality, as if it looms closer to you and floats some where off the wall. Something like that.  An idea worth looking into.