tools associated with gardening, like shovels/spades and pitchforks are ever present.
and i continue to remind myself, through action, that working consistently is strengthening the stamina of production.
also, these drawings are stimulating sculptural options. some of them clearly appear as if they are drawings of sculptures, although they are only drawn out from additions of line to paper, always evolving into their final form only as they are committed to page. never pre-planned. often starting as a plant, or as a spade, certainly only a single object, then connected to the next element, whatever springs to mind at the time of the drawing.
just as an example:
the second picture began as the form of honeycomb to the upper right. i started with this as i was recently invited to be involved with an exhibition of works-on-textile based on scientists. i was thinking about buckminster fuller, who is technically an engineer more than a scientist, but nevertheless seems to fit the same bill to my mind. anyway, that's where the drawing started. following the form, i wanted to make it more sculptural in appearance, so i thought something inside of it, or running through it, would evoke that. so i drew in a plant. i used a pattern based on feathers for the 'leaves' at the top, then drew down to a rope tied to its trunk. i completed the root system, which i wanted to be out of the ground, to show that the plant was floating in the air. i then followed the rope and thought i'd make it attach to a pitchfork. something about the plant being bound to the tools that are used to control/birth/manipulate it feels of interest. and then, rather than the pitchfork being in the ground, which was where i was expecting it to go, i decided to actually draw a pot for the soil into which it sits. finally, as this felt somehow stagnant or static, i put wheels on the pot to heighten a sense of dynamism or potential action.
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