REFERENCE 'DRAWING'

Dear xxx,

When you contacted me, I thought, what is the current role of a drawing when so many ways of making one are available to the artist today?

The definition of drawing often refers to utilizing "a pencil, pen, or crayon" and usually uses the word "representation" (wikipedia) which probably refers to a time when a drawing was used to work out ideas towards a more important final product such as painting, sculpture, or architecture.

However, as an artist I most often associate 'drawing' to the word "sketch", which is a means to notate an idea, not words and usually visual, which can be elaborated and remembered later. Personally drawing has been pencil, pen, and crayon but also sticker and photograph, the latter arguably the media that began to put into question the traditional meaning of a drawing.

Below I present some examples of my drawings from when I studied painting in the 1990s to today. Ironically the latest drawings -- the ones that I think best fit your project -- are the traditional ones, but they are informed by a multitude of means of making visual notes including photographs which in some circumstances most accurately and efficiently capture an idea that I will work out later and in this case my current project, "The Space Between Points".

PEN AND INK (traditional):