Tag: people
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In a recent creative Zoom call, I read aloud from the first chapter of a story/book/? I have been picking away at over the last few years. It’s a story that is piecing itself together based on drawings I have also been doing for years. Reading the story was difficult first because I don’t do well with that sort of performative reading but second because I don’t really know where the story is going yet. I suppose three because the craft of fiction writing feels like a dark art. My friend Mark is adept at plotting out stories and having…
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In 2016, I found these twenty-two rough-cut wood squares on the street and picked them up not knowing what I would do with them. When I laid them out at home, I started to spontaneously draw figures from my imagination surrounding and filling them with colours and marks that expressed some unique energy. Each drawing shows the bare head and shoulders of a figure. Some have their eyes open, some closed. I don’t know the source of any of them, whether they are bits of memory or purely imagined—probably a mixture. The drawing is a mix of graphite and water-soluble pencils which…