Untitled Abstraction #12
pencil on paper
This drawing is from 2015, and I’m writing about it in 2026, so my memory of making it isn’t clear. I’m looking at the series of drawings that this was a part of and am remembering that I was focusing on using the most recently finished piece to inspire the next. After a decades pause, I later used it as a starting point for a piece I began titled Broken Mind.
With these abstract drawings, my approach is to establish a few simple “laws” and then draw without much analysis, focusing mainly on how the elements relate to each other.
The laws here are straightforward. There is a space, and forms can move forward or recede within it. At the same time, I’m intentionally avoiding anything that reads as representational. This is an exercise in getting things/the elements to work with each other.
For me now, ten years later, the yellow shapes represent fragmented language. The rest of the shapes represent structure behind the language. I think this represents what I was at the time.