Among the first things we draw are ourselves
and the selves around us. Facing our image in the mirror or mirrored in others is
an act of self-discovery. We draw the human body with the human body. We
penetrate the body we draw only as much as we penetrate the body we live in.
The sensual and tactile way we engage our own bodies or the bodies of others
informs the touch of drawing tool to surface. The soft and bony landscape of
the body comes alive in the knowledge of the body we bathe every day. The physical
act of drawing–-its energy, its pace, its tenderness, its reluctance, its kinetics,
its curiosity–is driven by a human person feeling or seeking. Simply “seeing”
the figure is not “being” the figure; and simply making a compelling representation
of the figure is not necessarily mining the figure for all of its cultural,
spiritual, metaphorical and emotional meaning.
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