Image-Making Begins with interrogating appearances and making marks. Every artist discovers that drawing - when it is an urgent activity – is a two-way process.
To draw is not only to measure and put down, it is also to receive. When the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one, through the appearance of whatever it is scrutinizing.
To draw is not only to measure and put down, it is also to receive. When the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one, through the appearance of whatever it is scrutinizing.
The encounter of these two energies, their dialogue, does not have form of question or answer.
It is a ferocious and inarticulate dialogue. To sustain it requires faith.
It is like a burrowing in the dark, a burrowing under the apparent. The great images occur when the two tunnels meet and join perfectly. Sometimes when the dialogue is swift almost instantaneous, it's like something thrown and caught.”[1]
It is a ferocious and inarticulate dialogue. To sustain it requires faith.
It is like a burrowing in the dark, a burrowing under the apparent. The great images occur when the two tunnels meet and join perfectly. Sometimes when the dialogue is swift almost instantaneous, it's like something thrown and caught.”[1]
A Professional Secret first appeared in New Society Magazine, 1987.
Published in Keeping a Rendezvous by Granta, 1992.
