Intent Old Hands

I told my friend Anne that I’d like to draw her while she was working.  She said sure, come on over.  So I went to Anne’s house and she took me to the room where she made drawings.  It was a small room with a drawing board across one corner and a chair behind it in the very corner for Anne.

Anne’s drawings involve concentrated labor-intensive mark making.  The choices of vantage point for me were minimal.  I could look at either the top of her head as she bent over her drawing or her bent over profile.  The first hid her face and the second was too static.  So I started drawing her hands which moved and changed position, and to my eye, better portrayed her intensity.

I came away with several pages of drawings, each with multiple hands.  Not all the hands or the marks were good so I cut pieces of the paper and covered the drawings I didn’t want.  I did this on most of the pages.  I made the book itself out of of the same paper, a heavy smooth bristol.  The result is a book of white on white on white collaging intermixed with small drawings.

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Intent Old Hands is a unique book. 11 x 9 inches. Book, cover and drawing pages made of archival Bristol paper. Five brush and sumi ink drawings. 2015.