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I draw pictures. In my studio, I draw the things I have seen, heard, read, or thought. I filter my impressions and combine them in my drawings. Using a personal idiom of basic forms such as houses, trees, ladders, telegraph poles, swings, sandboxes, etc., I construct a drawing using my associations, similar to a box of bricks. A drawing pen and drawing-ink form the tools for my drawings. By consciously leaving much space in my canvas or paper white, that which is drawn is expressed more explicitly and not hidden behind other information. I thus notice minimum manifestations receive optimum effect. One line can be overwhelmingly present in the vast emptiness of white. I like the subdued tension that is sometimes found in a drawing, as if something is waiting to happen or the realisation that an innocent scene carries a drama. This may provide a double connotation functioning as a pitfall. I try to show that things can be what they do not seem to be, or what they are also. I strive for clear images in my drawings, like cartoons, without showing a direct message. Hidden variants of reality sometimes become visible by affecting existing relationships and changing contexts. |
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