Drawing Books: Corinna

Written By Ditta Baron Hoeber
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Corinna / Ensemble

Part of my practice has included drawing a person weekly for several months, sometimes for years.  The intimacy that the time spent together engenders becomes part of what the drawings are about.  

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Corinna / Ensemble

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Corinna / Ensemble

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Corinna / Ensemble

Corinna is an actress that I saw in a wonderful performance of Beckett stories titled Desinence.  Later I saw her again waiting tables at a neighborhood restaurant.  When I had worked up the nerve I asked her to sit for drawings — and she said yes.  

I drew her for awhile, then I photographed her in rehearsals for more than one play, and then I made drawings of her again.  I’ve been to see her performances and read her writing and she’s read my writing.  We’ve been friends now for many years.  

The two groups of drawings were made eight years apart, enough time that I can see the changes in her face.

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Corinna

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Corinna

Corinna / Ensemble is a unique book. 12.5 x 12.5 inches. Thirteen brush and sumi ink and gouache drawings on basinwerk or bristol paper mounted in stonehenge paper book with stonehenge paper cover. 2003.

Corinna is a unique book. 12.5 x 14.5 inches. Fifteen brush and sumi ink, chalk, and gouache drawings on bristol or lanaquarelle paper mounted in stonehenge paper book with stonehenge paper cover. 2011.

Ditta Baron Hoeber
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