Meditation 52 Drawing

The Meditation Series is a group of improvisational abstract drawings in pen on paper. They are Dionysian orgies of marks, strokes, scribbles, scratches, "scretches, scrutches and scritches" (E.E. Cummings). They are abstract "objects", self-contained compositions, floating in a background of white space. They are independent of the boundaries of the containers that contain them (the sheet of paper). They are like amoebas floating in a petri dish. Many of the drawings are inspired by nature. They channel nature by reflecting a distant echo of the landscape. The fertile variety of marks, shapes, and textures alludes to the fertile variety of nature. While some of the doodles allude to vegetation, others allude to protozoan-like organisms. But they are unself-conscious allusions. I do not consciously attempt to create drawings depicting nature. The Meditation Series drawings have the freshness and spontaneity of improvisation. But even more than that, the drawings, as Rudolf Arnheim writes, "reflect human experience by pure visual expression and spatial relations [by using] pure form [which] aims more directly at the hidden clockwork of nature, which more realistic styles represent indirectly by its manifestations in material things and events." (Rudolf Arnheim, Art and Visual Perception, A Psychology of the Creative EyeThe Meditations Series is a Zen-like Dionysian abandonment.

Drawing:Pen and Ink on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:7 W x 6 H x 0.1 D in

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