Sketches
Sometimes I like to exaggerate when sketching, and in this genre, that’s not only desirable—it gives power to what seems like such a simple and humble—trivial—drawing. Exaggeration is also what most often—or usually—captures the viewer’s interest. Just like in the advertising business, what is unusual or out of the ordinary is the key to success and achievement. If the sketches are piled up one on top of the other in folders—that I myself had forgotten about their existence for years—they are interesting to me, but then, encouraged by others, I frame a few as gifts, a small gesture of gratitude. They take on their own separate scale of significance. Some will remain simply as working materials, others I’ll integrate into a larger project (read: work), but others are interesting precisely because of their fleeting lightness.
With this long introduction, I just wanted to remind myself (and perhaps others) that the process—the path toward a goal—can be long, but it is certainly not boring. One of these “pauses” or “silent” periods isn’t really a pause at all—it’s a time of searching. This search, too, is part of something big or even larger. And what has always seemed to me like “there’s nothing here yet” is, to others, a fresh and light, uncontrived work of art.
