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200 + 32 Two hundred drawings from a found dolls head. Why two hundred? One hundred was too for-seeable while two hundred presented unimaginable territory. Plus another thirty two more due to momentum. They are included because the drive of the project was to present the responses - the drawings – unedited, raw and unrefined. The dolls head was chosen because it was, in a way arbitrary - it was a found object. However because of what it is, a representation of a baby head, the object is charged with meaning. The head was returned to where it was found after the project was completed.
layers of each drawing are put down independent of the previous one, in a manner similar to blind drawing. The hand and eye move across the page and object as a scanner does, picking out the relevant bits each time anew. The project itself is meditative and observational in character, an attempt to find objectivity in multiple subjective experiences. To quote Willem de Kooning’s famous phrase, “Content is a glimpse.” |