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Comment by Nancy Wyman Ray on April 25, 2013 at 10:33am

That's exactly true for me at times, and I am sometimes even surprised by the outcome of the process I've gone through.

Nancy

Comment by Resident Curator on April 22, 2013 at 9:13am

Hi Nancy,

 

Thanks for responding.  I'm happy you thought my comments relevant.  I was attracted to your work as much as your statement about the act of drawing.  Sometimes I also feel my work is just the residual leftover from the activity.

 

Kristen

Comment by Nancy Wyman Ray on April 19, 2013 at 8:11am

Hi Resident Curator,

Thank you for your thorough attention to my picture, and for the detailed and enlightening description of what I do. It's satisfying to see my art through someone else's eyes - especially someone who has a real talent for seeing. "Drawing" was a different sort of experience for me from the beginning, particularly in the way I "divided up the picture plan" as you mentioned.  Again, thanks so much.

Comment by Resident Curator on April 18, 2013 at 4:58pm

Curator’s Comment:

 

Drawing successfully overtakes the viewer with seemingly erratic patterns and methodical mark making.  The hypnotic web of alternating curvilinear lines and checkered squares systematically bends the illusion of the two-dimensional picture plane.  I particularly enjoy the upper left section where the small dark net of black shapes is overlapped by one longer, calligraphic ribbon of a line.  This smaller vignette suggests a detail, enlarging the smaller repeated elements in the bottom and center section of the piece.  In this way it is self-referential. Visual unity is also fortified by the repetition and variation of the same design in lighter values.  The top slicing crescent shape for instance, descends and crosses over several other patterns and appears to absorb a lighter version of each. But I also see a great deal of control in this piece. It is decidedly more about order than chaos.  The other drawings you’ve posted have a command of space in the larger solid black shapes.  They divide up the picture plan in an even more deliberate way, and offer visual rest at fixed intervals.  But while they are also quite pleasing in their patterns and movement, the drawing by the same title has a fresh quality that seems most intuitive, or innate.