2016 Drawings

Drawings, (the most recent artwork is at the bottom of this page)

2016, January, "Untitled", artwork guided by meditative mantra music.

With these drawings I am doing research on the influence of repetitive monotone music of the Tibetan mantra singers on my artwork. As it is quite cold at the atelier in January I discovered a way to keep on drawing in wintertime and to keep myself warm by the physical act of drawing this way.

Guided by the mantra singing of the Tibetan monks I noticed that my mind slided into a meditative state of focus on the repetitive act of drawing the vertical lines, on the black lines finding their place on the white paper and on the repetitive sound/noise from the monotone contact made by the act of sliding the charcoal pencil over and over again for thousand times on the paper.

In a second state I experimented with a more distant setting to get less direct "already known" connection to the singing. I putted the same Tibetan mantra singing twice but the second plays with a little delay of time. So the mantra singing became more like a chaotic soundscape going on and on. It developed with less connection to the singing and a deeper meditative state of repetitive drawing the lines.

Gyuto Monks Tantric Choir: Tibetan Chants for World Peace https://youtu.be/L42AnSAdzXw
Chanting Itipiso Katha 108x times https://youtu.be/ivSD7UQABr0

2016, January-April, "Expanding XL", big size drawing, guided by meditative mantra music.

"Expanding Horizontal XL", charcoal, Cretacolor, Chunky charcoal, Cretacolor pastel carré stick, Conté crayon Pierre Noire, Cretacolor red accents on Fabriano Accademia 200 gr, 75 x 250 cm

2016, April, "Expanding Horizontal"

2016, February, "Black Horizon"

2016, Juin, "Movimiento"

2016, Juin, "Waving"

"Black White" mounted paperwork

2016, August, "Horizontal Split"

2016, August, "Cellulle 13"

2016, August, "The making off..." from "Smoke" to "Curly play"

I like to targeting an idea, to enjoying the result and the process. The risk then is to take too much pleasure of this process and to overload the drawing. At a certain point I wonder what is going on and observe my work, untill i realise that i have surpassed what I wanted to do and the result looks very clean, but lacks dynamics and energy.
So I need to do somehow tabula rasa in a way and discover new horizons.
What I love of this creative process is that the artwork gathers a lot of history in its evolution, even though it may not be perceivable right away... the energy is inside the project.

"The making off..." from "Smoke" to "Curly play" in B/W, charcoal pencil, charcoal powder, erasing techniques on Fabriano Accademia 200 gr, 75 x 250 cm

2016, August, "Oval expanding to Curly Sexy Moves"... it is not what it seems or is it?

2016, September, "Rythm"

2016, September, "Window"

2016, September, Digital exploring "Window"

Stepping into digital adapting my artwork. Exploring dynamics offered by digital routines. Transfers i never can reach so quickly in a manual way. Organising energetic expansion g from the center of the drawing.