I used a heavyweight drawing paper with a prominent tooth. This drawing was completely spontaneous. I was sitting down to start a new geometric drawing, ruler and pencil in hand. I waited and I waited, but I couldn't draw a single line. I felt, somehow, clogged. My mind was clouded and my hand refused to move, so I picked up a solid graphite stick (I think I finished with charcoal, but now that I think about it I started with graphite). I moved the stick around the page randomly, and the form emerged. I immediately started thinking about a dream I had years ago, about the shadow figure. After a few minutes I felt relief and was able to continue with geometry.
Whilst I'm really attracted to your actual drawings, I'm even more inspired and feel in-tune with your processes. I know the feelings of being frozen when it's not the right time yet to begin. As well as having an intent and something else guides you into doing something else. One has to be so trusting. But it does become so much easier the more you work like this.
Love your description here of how by drawing this figure, the dream energy was recalled and dissipated and how something in you then was resolved.
Thank you :)
I used a heavyweight drawing paper with a prominent tooth. This drawing was completely spontaneous. I was sitting down to start a new geometric drawing, ruler and pencil in hand. I waited and I waited, but I couldn't draw a single line. I felt, somehow, clogged. My mind was clouded and my hand refused to move, so I picked up a solid graphite stick (I think I finished with charcoal, but now that I think about it I started with graphite). I moved the stick around the page randomly, and the form emerged. I immediately started thinking about a dream I had years ago, about the shadow figure. After a few minutes I felt relief and was able to continue with geometry.
Whilst I'm really attracted to your actual drawings, I'm even more inspired and feel in-tune with your processes. I know the feelings of being frozen when it's not the right time yet to begin. As well as having an intent and something else guides you into doing something else. One has to be so trusting. But it does become so much easier the more you work like this.
Love your description here of how by drawing this figure, the dream energy was recalled and dissipated and how something in you then was resolved.