Fired books. Drawing. Miraculous transfiguration.

Drawing with book ash. Miraculous transfiguration: from book to cloud.

Drawing. Thinking again. I do not forget.

I do not remember; I do not forget.

Time out. Thinking. Drawing again.

Time out. Drawing.

On a bad day, I can fill a sketchbook: I can draw myself out of a problem and into a problem. I use drawing to think, when linear thinking - brainstorming and list-making - does not help. Thinking with the right side of the brain? It is a very relaxed and fluid process - similar to automatic writing.

I had one of those days today, that resulted in excessive drawing.

Coincidentally, I ended up at Clayton Merrell's  lecture in the evening. I had it my diary, but when I got there, I could not remember what it was going to be. Well - it was about... drawing. Bingo! It was an hour an a half of names and slides of artist who draw. He divided the area into 6 bonkers groups reflecting the diversity within the category:
messed-up neo-realist mannerism
freak folk
cartographic remixes
dirty abstraction
labour-intensive conceptualism
complex generato-techno structuralism.
Each category was illustrated by about a gazillion of artists. A continuous flow of drawings.

Just what the doctor ordered.

Drawing memory absence: I do not remember.

I do not remember. No words obscure my thoughts.










I do not remember things very well.
There is a swing and a budgerigar in the upper part of my brain.
Budgerigar whistles.
I had an MRI scan.

Meltdown:drawing grub all day.

I went into a meltdown yesterday, spending the whole day drawing.

This the my original grub in the pages of the book. A while ago I was photocopying in the library something about Pestival, when I came across this old photo, somebody had left in the magazine. So I photocopied it into the article. As a result, the meaning of the image and the article changed, extended, metamorphosed. The title: Fig.7. Grub in the pages of the book expanded: now it was referring to the underdressed woman, to the photo, to the idea of the pest and the book.
"Things become complicated in arts context" (John Baldessari) - yes, indeed.













Anyway, by the end of yesterday my grub underwent metamorphosis and here is a very extended vision of what a grub is and what it does.

Top picture: Grub in the book flies to the moon. He takes the GHOST along. For company. The GHOST hates the trip but stays polite in front of the press.
Bottom picture: This is not my grub. She came here by herself. To pause for a minute.

Grubs don't go chasing waterfalls. Especially not the ones from the books.

Not profound at all - but I had fun!

Drawing: the world is independent of my will.

"The world is independent of my will" (TLP, 6.373)

I had this A3 drawing ready for the MA Xmas party. Unfortunately, Lambeth dug up our road without warning today. Resurfacing. As a result I could not get to Camberwell.
Suddenly, Wittgenstein's quote seems very relevant.

my work: monomyth journey I-1

"Mapping the Myth of My Own I"
journey 1

Mapping human experience. Where do I come from. What is the path. What is left of the source. The metomorphosis.

In simple words: I am taking personal knowledge (dealing with disappointment, anger, difficult relatives, search for the grail ) as a background; I try to explain it and structure it using monomyth.

The drawings are a map. They represent (rather than depict) schema of the events.

PS: Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work is vast, covering many aspects of the human experience. His philosophy is often summarized by his phrase: "Follow your bliss."

Joseph Campbell's term monomyth, also referred to as the hero's journey, refers to a basic pattern found in many narratives from around the world. This widely distributed pattern was described by Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949).

my work: monomyth journey I-2

"Mapping the Myth of My Own I"
journey 2

Mapping human experience. Where do I come from. What is the path. What is left of the source. The metamorphosis.

In simple words: I am taking personal knowledge (dealing with disappointment, anger, difficult relatives, search for the grail ) as a background; I try to explain it and structure it using monomyth.

The drawings are a map. They represent (rather than depict) schema of the events.

PS: Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work is vast, covering many aspects of the human experience. His philosophy is often summarized by his phrase: "Follow your bliss."

Joseph Campbell's term monomyth, also referred to as the hero's journey, refers to a basic pattern found in many narratives from around the world. This widely distributed pattern was described by Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949).

my work: monomyth journey I-3

"Mapping the Myth of My Own I"
journey 3

This is all about mapping human experience onto the structure of monomyth. Taking my personal knowledge (dealing with disappointment, anger, difficult relatives, search for the grail ) as a background; I try to explain it and structure it using monomyth.

The drawings are a map. They represent (rather than depict) schema of the events.

Trying to map the workings of my mind.

PS: Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work is vast, covering many aspects of the human experience. His philosophy is often summarized by his phrase: "Follow your bliss."

Joseph Campbell's term monomyth, also referred to as the hero's journey, refers to a basic pattern found in many narratives from around the world. This widely distributed pattern was described by Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949).

my work: monomyth journey I-4

"Mapping the Myth of My Own I"
journey 4

Mapping human experience. Where do I come from. What is the path. What is left of the source. The metamorphosis.

In simple words: I am taking personal knowledge (dealing with disappointment, anger, difficult relatives, search for the grail ) as a background; I try to explain it and structure it using monomyth.

The drawings are a map. They represent (rather than depict) schema of the events.

PS: Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work is vast, covering many aspects of the human experience. His philosophy is often summarized by his phrase: "Follow your bliss."

Joseph Campbell's term monomyth, also referred to as the hero's journey, refers to a basic pattern found in many narratives from around the world. This widely distributed pattern was described by Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949).

my work: monomyth journey II

"Mapping the Myth of My Own II"

Mapping human experience. Where do I come from. What is the path. What is left of the source. The metamorphosis.

In simple words: I am taking personal knowledge (dealing with disappointment, anger, difficult relatives, search for the grail ) as a background; I try to explain it and structure it using monomyth.

The drawings are a map. They represent (rather than depict) schema of the events.

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I like those drawings. They look like they hold some sort of truth in them. However, I will have to narrow down in the future.

THE plates: digitally prited ceramics.

These are the plates I did for as my final piece for the Foundation at Chelsea College of Art and Design. I was dealing with privacy and exposure. Private made public.

I have really enjoyed working on the plates. I learned good few things about digital printing, ceramic decals and porcelain. Tim Haker, the technician at the ceramics studios, had been great help with his knowledge and support.