Drawing/thinking about DRAWING

Drawing, sketching and planning is a regular part of my process. But, it’s a part that rarely gets seen. Drawing like this is how I think and begin to envision things. At the beginning of 2021 I’m thinking a lot about how my performative drawings might evolve. Specifically, I’m thinking about simultaneous co-presence, absence, screens, structure, obsession, mark and digital media. My process often finds me overly complicating things and stacking multiple concepts on top of each other only to simplify and remove layers later. There is a common mythology that surrounds contemporary art practice, the myth that we know exactly what we are doing and why from the outset. The myth that we are chasing some preconceived or pre-visualized work that perfectly gives form to our concepts and delivers aesthetically and materially. The reality for many of us is that the real work is found in the midst of process, in the moments of its making. What I know right now are the ingredients that I want to work with and the concepts that have driven me here. I know that my next performance drawings will each be drawings in 3 acts.
act 1: structure / construction, act 2: mark / duration, act 3: remain / persist

One section of my studio wall is dedicated to collecting all the concepts that he e been building in my head. The hope is to get as many out of my mind and on paper as possible. Allowing weak ones to fall away and viable ideas to to become more solid. These sketches will not become blueprints that I will later follow, instead they will become synthesis tools that allow me to visually process the ideas and learn what I don’t want. Later, the ideas that survive will become departure points for tests and iterations.