One of my students/friends from a recent drawing class came to my house last week to show me a seed pod she had found. She enthusiastically pointed out the curious shapes, contours, and textures she was finding in that irrelevant artifact.
The small becomes large. The inconsequential takes center stage.
I have wondered why this business of drawing transcends the mechanics and principles to something much larger. John Taylor talks about the "sense of beyondness at the heart of things." I wonder if we are, in our art, being drawn to a kind of mystery that is present in seeing with a sort of third eye that sees beauty in cracked plaster,folded laundry and homely insects.
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