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.
