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High Light 2, May 2012, Highlighter pen on folded paper, 6″x6″

Was it just me that imagined a nude rowing a boat (new drawing, nude rowing)?

Yesterday it was a drawing (?) that may have been sculpture. Today, surely it is sculpture.

Or maybe a greetings card, or origami?

I would like to see this about 12′ x 12′, can you get sheets of paper that big?

Photography is literally “drawing with light”, so what is it when you “draw” a line by folding the paper, maybe it’s sculpture?

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Looking back to April (just last month) here are the 30 drawings in slideshow format, one for each day of the month

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I wasn’t sure if the divisions of paper were really drawings

David Manley suggested ages ago that I add colour. I liked the idea and now I am working with the same theme (more or less) only this time with paint on canvas. I ‘m not sure I could really call it a painting.

Lattice, 2012, acrylic on canvas, 12" x 12"

Dare I ask – does it do anything for you?

Each day in April I made a drawing, each one following  the same process, of dividing the paper diagonally in both directions, as well as vertically and horizontally.

and then again…

… and again…

… for as many times as I could without losing the plot…

… which was usually about five…

…or six times. Never more than six.

The process reminded me of the question “how many times can you fold a piece of paper?” There are only so many times it can be done.

I drew freehand on day one, with a rule on day two, and alternating thereafter.Without a rule the sixth iteration is largely guesswork, but when using a rule it becomes much easier to do right up to the completion of the sixth step.

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Some small sketches I am working on: all variations made by rotating one or other of the two drawings that, combined, make up a 6″ x 12″ drawing. (Click on an image to see full size slides.)

All are studies for a series of 6″ x 12″ paintings.

Is it because I am an identical twin myself, that my interest in repeating the same thing borders on obsession?

I do this “same” drawing every day. If I did two, one of them twenty minutes after the other, now that would definitely be about twinniness!

I feel drawn to draw comparisons between these drawings…

I have in mind that there are two drawings here, each made up of three smaller ones. In both of them I think I am combining “drawing as dividing a space” and “drawing as constructing in space”.

Arrival in Whitby, 13 April, 2012

In Whitby with Dennis and Sue, 14 April 2012

NATD Social Dance Competition, Whitby, 15 April 2012

Travel home, 16 April 2012

Autobiographical content?