"When we are children, we all draw. I drew as
a child probably for two reasons. One was that I was engaged visually
in the way some things looked, and I drew the things I liked and loved.
The other reason was loneliness. The vulnerability that a child feels
can provoke empowerment through drawing by capturing the things visually
loved. Drawing is not just expressing a visual mode or a
well-articulated visual response; it is deeply connected to a natural
impulse. When I am drawing, I am aware of both a conscious and
unconscious processes. The most difficult thing is to first abandon what
a drawing should be (a complex conception or representational copy).
Begin with an emotive response. It could be motivated by something as
simple as a twist of hair against a bony clavicle or the comfortable or
uncomfortable psychological space between two people. Second, provide
form to that initial response. Here begins the strategy or conception.
The trick is not to allow the concept to become rigid, but instead to
remain flexible through the activity and allow a visual journey of
selectivity and change through the drawing. Drawing from life is an
accumulation of subtle events made evident on a page. Unlike
photography, drawing is not instantaneous but a multitude of sequential
responses over time. A drawing can provide the viewer with a relic of
compounded experiences that remains alive to the eye."
- Drawing: A Natural Impulse by Steven Assael
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