Drawings

Next to the complexity of the paintings, the stone-drawings are utterly simple: a school pencil and a drawing pad are all I need to create them. I was in Ponta Delgada in the Fall of 2008, at “back to school” time. For some time, my mind had been wandering, piecing together considerations from the ‘grafiti’ in the margins of my old school notebooks to the meaning of realism. One day, I bought a pencil, a pad and a sharpener -no eraser- at the nearby convenience store.  I was reconnecting with pure calligraphy, and soon realized that I could endlessly draw the same stone, focusing each day on a minute detail of its cracks and volumes. I returned to Boston with a few stones and continued a series of realist observation drawings only to discover, some time later, that the ghost figures of my paintings where starting to emerge in the drawings. This remains mysterious to me and questions whether an art technique ultimately influences creation. The first series of fifty drawings returned to the island for an exhibition over metal hand made stands.

All drawings shown are 8.25″x11.4″, created with graphite pencil on paper.