Into the Wild Drawing

This first piece in my 2019 collection signifies the beginning of a very creative and explorative year combining landscape and animal, specifically birds, in a experimental relationship with each other. The flowing ink strokes in the background depicts the landscape of working-class suburbia of my childhood where a bleakness of looming adulthood meets the spaciousness of a child’s empty wanderings. Artist Gao Xing Jian’s easy confidence in his evocative brushstrokes encourages me to use less, to say more. An owl, long-standing symbol of wisdom, is surrounded by a renaissance-inspired halo that separates it from the background and gives a kind of ‘inner’ frame to read the owl’s presence as being poised to move from imposed order into the destiny of it’s own, wild divinity. I chose to be playful and combine smooth, realistic execution with crafted imperfection and flat spaces. When I allow decorative elements such as the design of the halo to come through, I find that there is space in me to place simple shapes effectively on paper as well. The artwork has been purchased by a Cape Town veterinary who has a special affinity for owls and whose own lineage is strongly artistic.

Drawing:Charcoal on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:16.5 W x 23.4 H x 0.1 D in

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