Essence Drawings

These drawings represent a quest to find the perfect line. Think of it as an analogy for sorting out from the facts of life our most important truths. The lines of form are gone over and over; then traced, redrawn, and traced again. My goal in this series is to find a path, through combinations and recombinations of form, toward the communication of a simple, pure idea - the motives that pre-exist action and impulse, the secrets underlying surface reality, the warmth that lurks in everyday geometries. Each drawing represents the distillation of anywhere from twenty to fifty others to get it right. A final template is created which allows for the production of an edition; a type of drawn monograph; each one the whisper and emblem of a simple human feeling.

Contemplative
Contemplative
Pencil on deckled printmaking paper
22" x 30" (56cm x 76cm)
Embrace
Embrace
Pencil on deckled printmaking paper
22" x 30" (56cm x 76cm)
Mother and Child
Mother and Child
Pencil on deckled printmaking paper
22" x 30" (56cm x 76cm)
Pensive with coffee
Pensive with coffee
Pencil on deckled printmaking paper
22" x 30" (56cm x 76cm)
Portrait
Portrait
Pencil on deckled printmaking paper
22" x 30" (56cm x 76cm)
Self Exploration
Self Exploration
Pencil on deckled printmaking paper
22" x 30" (56cm x 76cm)