A surface of some kind, some pigment, the scratchiness of a burned stick, the track of a brush left in an ink wash – this simplicity of means characterizes an historic tradition of drawing. Writing-like symbols contrast, or merge with accidental marks, or lines and values, suggesting at times familiar imagery of daily experience, or dream journeys. The act of drawing plays between perception, unconscious and analytic functions – acknowledging the present moment, and then leaving behind an artifact to be contemplated in the next.

by Kim Goertner Darling