Tag: portraits
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During most weekdays I spend some portion of my day in video calls. I work remotely for my job and those calls are the way I attend meetings and have one-on-one check ins with the people I work with. I mention this mostly because, over the recent holidays, I spent a couple of days reorganizing my workroom here at home and one of the goals I had was finding better ways to find myself in a room that I spend a lot of paid time in but that beyond that is my room in our home. In the video calls…
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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…