Drawing #1
Straight-up blind contour drawing of a plant in my apartment. I tried to imagine moving my finger along the edge of physical model.
Drawing #2
Tracings… I started off trying to trace the lines on the surface of a jigsaw puzzle — what I was after was the physical experience of touching the object while drawing it. I found that tracing was the most gratifying way I could find to put my finger on the object I was drawing.
Drawing #3
A line-drawing which also explores contour. This drawing is composed of only three lines and plays with the idea that things have to be drawn first in order to be made. This drawing/object was drawn and made simultaneously.
Non-Drawing #1
There are a bunch of lines in this photograph. Many of them are implied as edges of objects — the contours these objects present. There is a flow of action in this photograph that proceeds from the upper left to the bottom middle. This is the most literal line here, but at the same time, each vehicle, while following the road is also following its own trajectory — an invisible line that is not shown here.
Notice how perspective affects the lines on the buildings. Because of the thirteenth floor vantage point from which I took this photo, the vertical lines on the building seem to be on a collision course somewhere below the street. You can even see that they start out thicker at the top of the building and grow thinner as they go down. It’s very interesting what our eyes (and camera lenses) do to lines that are in fact parallel (by measurement).