Drawing & Printmaking
The above etching is the culmination of previous studies (see two of them below) all of which helped to fathom the diverse character of a place. Initially I was impressed with the breeze one day and the way it moved the cyprus tree (see pen drawing). The gentleness of that wind could safely move eggs. On another day the fragile tree branches seemed like armatures supporting a green dragon squirming as the foliage. Another time the shadows resembled a procession of monks entering the deep woods. This process of returning to a place at different times and in different states of mind sitting on the same park bench receiving multiple impressions is a satisfying way to embed layered meaning into an image. It also reveals something interesting about ones subjective reality and the ever changing, life span of a place.
“The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.” - Alain de Botton
