Ice Cream, 2010, gouache, colored pencil and gesso on paper
Convenient Landscape
My eyes are like magpies swirling and dipping as they take in the world. They alight on various fancies: a phrase, an object, a pattern. In turn, I feel the need to recognize these small delights. This acquisitive impulse is the underpinning of this series of drawings.
Keeping my responses open to what my visual reality provides; I make a decision through indecision. These drawings are done with no boundaries in style and subject matter beyond size and media: sheets of 9” x 12” watercolor paper, gouache, colored pencil and gesso. Light and immediate materials allow for an unlabored response.
These small, quick works teach me about what my eyes seek out: the end credits of a John Carpenter film, elements of atmospheric perspective and relative scale that I’m teaching my students, snowflakes and cloud forms reflecting my non-native’s fascination with Ohio’s winter weather, all the romantic facets of my everyday landscape. Here, through drawing, I allow myself to reflect on the bright churning pleasures of a full world.
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