Music! Music! Music! (Put Another Nickel) -Take 06 Drawing

‘jazz drawings’ I have made a conscious decision to create abstract works in the series ‘Jazz drawings’ I start a drawing with a small abstract motif with which I improvise within a set of self-imposed constraints much like a jazz musician will improvise with a music motive. The final image is not determined in advance. It is thus the outcome of a succession of drawing choices. The pen or brush strokes and sensitivity of the lines themselves and the intuition of the moment are an essential part of the creative process. They constitute a signature of the moment. When this process is repeated with the same thematic material and a similar set of constraints, different drawings and images are created within the same (sound)/image palette. (name + take_01; take_02, etc.) This study always provides new perspectives; the result is an evolutionary process. As in jazz, certain themes, over time are re-examined and revived as a source of inspiration. The impulse and the main structure of the drawing are spontaneous and direct with a pen on paper or on canvas and thus indelible. This is not “free jazz” or “action painting”, but rather an accumulation of small shifts which are inhibited by the rules and restrictions that I impose on myself. The further development of the drawing is a meticulous job, an accumulation of small subtle human decisions, a cellular structure of colour, lines and shapes. Like a jazz musician who is seeking his own voice and timbre.