Open Again
This is drawing number 24 in the Red Book, my current active surface drawing project.
Some of the last marks I added to this as I finished it this morning were two lists of five words. Lists of words have been common in my drawings over the last 10 years. I enjoy the somewhat random poetry they can evoke and also the visual shape of words and words in sequence.
Sometimes the words are pulled from a source text—like one of the 80+ year-old elementary school spelling books my partner and I collect—and other times they are just words that rise from my mind. Single words that suggest other words in turn, not to form sentences but to arrange in an associative matrix. You can see them just as words on their own or as a path to follow.
Might
Laced
Marks
Mirror
Loose
Lines