Drawings
I keep promising to post some of what I'm working on at school and for some reason I haven't.
This is a series I'm working on right now. Two of the three drawings are shown here (Allusion and Illusion). The third of the series (titled Elusion) is in progress. It is a drawing of a Giraffe whose head has been cropped by the paper. In each, the lured is frozen by the lure. The donkey watches as it's rider, or the rider in front of it eats the carrot, the camel stares at the needle it cannot pass.
Grunewald's Isenheim Altarpiece is made up of a number of panels. When the piece is taken apart the right arm of Christ is severed. I thought about seeing the left panel alone, only a floating right arm on it. It's severing gave the entire painting a new context. Likewise these drawings are and can be further severed. They are each made of four 30" X 44" pieces of paper suggesting their connectedness as well as their otherness. I painted watered down gesso onto the Rives BFK grey. The drawings are done with a carpenter pencil and an eraser. I would like them to be visual, non-lexical homophones much like their titles, which would allow for them to function on many different planes.
“Axe of Genocide”
This is a drawing I did for a show at the Tate Center concerned with the genocide in Rwanda. Much of the killing could have been avoided had the United States called the murdering there "Genocide." Because we only would refer to the massacre as "acts of Genocide" the necessary actions could not legally take place. Madeline Albright released a statement at the time that said, "the future of Rwanda, is in the Rwandan's hands now." Much of the killing between the Tutsi and the Hutu's was based on either narrow or broad features. In the middle of my drawing I've placed the historical evolution of the Axe.
posted by J Blanka @ 8:50 PM
