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Brush and India ink on paper.
I apologize for the visible seam somewhere along the center. My sketchbook is larger than the surface of our home scanner, so, ...
I had initially intended on putting something more in the empty space on the bottom, but I didn't know what, so I left it alone for awhile. The more I looked at it and pondered what to place there, the more I grew to *like* the slight feeling of incompleteness about it. The reactions of some - certainly not all - of the people who've seen it in person while flipping through my sketchbook were similar, that it felt incomplete, and that that particularly bothered them a little, and they wanted, needed, something to be there, to fill that space. I can sympathize a little, especially since I'd initially *intended* to put something there.
But since I have no delusions that art should be pleasing or comfortable or agreeable, I decided that I liked the fact that it invokes uncomfortableness in some people, especially in that, that uncomfortableness has nothing to do with the content, per se, but rather with an *absence* of content, that it's not the subject matter that causes some to feel slightly uncomfortable, but rather it's simply feeling incomplete.
Now why do I like that so much? Well, because if there's anything that I am, I'm subtle, and thus, I enjoy and appreciate subtlety.
I apologize for the visible seam somewhere along the center. My sketchbook is larger than the surface of our home scanner, so, ...
I had initially intended on putting something more in the empty space on the bottom, but I didn't know what, so I left it alone for awhile. The more I looked at it and pondered what to place there, the more I grew to *like* the slight feeling of incompleteness about it. The reactions of some - certainly not all - of the people who've seen it in person while flipping through my sketchbook were similar, that it felt incomplete, and that that particularly bothered them a little, and they wanted, needed, something to be there, to fill that space. I can sympathize a little, especially since I'd initially *intended* to put something there.
But since I have no delusions that art should be pleasing or comfortable or agreeable, I decided that I liked the fact that it invokes uncomfortableness in some people, especially in that, that uncomfortableness has nothing to do with the content, per se, but rather with an *absence* of content, that it's not the subject matter that causes some to feel slightly uncomfortable, but rather it's simply feeling incomplete.
Now why do I like that so much? Well, because if there's anything that I am, I'm subtle, and thus, I enjoy and appreciate subtlety.
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Hello ! I think the white circle being so close to the invading white sharp surface is what makes us feel so incomfortable, it's so unnatural, so close to the horizon, it must be a vision of the last days, like the moon crashing on earth or something (see Melancolia); the shapes are so vibrant because of the halos and in the same time it is very straight. Well I stop now any unwanted analysis : )
I was just wondering : do you brush ink and then with a scalpel or something etch it ? If so what kind of paper are you using ? and if not, then how do you create this ? (apart of the levels) ,
I once read that Giger in his youth used this technique and it must be very cool :
puyt chapes of any kind then erase with scalpel and then put again some more ink... , carving into the flesh of paper.
By the way, this drawing is intense.
I was just wondering : do you brush ink and then with a scalpel or something etch it ? If so what kind of paper are you using ? and if not, then how do you create this ? (apart of the levels) ,
I once read that Giger in his youth used this technique and it must be very cool :
puyt chapes of any kind then erase with scalpel and then put again some more ink... , carving into the flesh of paper.
By the way, this drawing is intense.