I love art-making, it's where my imagination can travel freely into curious new worlds. Part of that form of expression is storytelling through various creations: images, characters, sounds, songs, sculpture and writing. My last post was a story that playfully asked a question about the mind, and whether we can see it and touch it. I enjoy pondering the meaning of things in my drawings, underlying and overt. As I draw, my mind constantly churns: analyzing and turning the process I'm engaged in physically to make a piece of visual art into an exploration of that experience. My mind becomes an ally, a partner, an echoing voice that accompanies my drawing process. Often when I listen to music while drawing, I can reduce the volume and activity of thinking. I also experiment with not listening to music to allow myself to focus on drawing and solving problems that arise in fulfilling the creative vision I'm pursuing in a certain piece. This piece below (The Source of Thinking, 2008) is the next in my first series of pen drawings. It reveals the combination of visual-motor actions combined with accompanied thoughts. The pathways the piece contains represent both visual and intellectual patterns of thought and interwoven memories. Simplicity and complexity coexist, teasing each other forward in a dance of curiosity, of magic and wonder.
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