thinking drawing

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From John Berger [1] I learn about drawings done from observation, as conversation and from memory.  These 'categories' make sense to me as I consider my various surroundings and the ready-to-hand qualities of pencil and sketchbook in the hope of observing, recording, conversing and remembering the people and places I encounter – without the aid of complex equipment.

Intrigued by the relationship of hands-off means of depiction and the hand-drawn, my research has led me down a number of avenues.  A provisional medium, drawing surely shares something of the incisive yet vulnerable quality of early proto-photographic images – those "fairy pictures, creations of a moment and destined as rapidly to fade away" [2] – made before the discovery of chemical means of fixing.  Except that drawings do last, often against the odds their creators lost [3]. 

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methods

earlier works

[1] Berger on Drawing; chapter entitled "Drawing on Paper"; John Berger; 2005 //
[2] The Pencil of Nature; WH Fox Talbot, 1844 // Project Gutenberg [online] p4 //
[3] I am inspired by the work of children and their teachers at Terezin camp 1942-44 // see the Jewish Museum in Prague