Four Generations, a single image. I gave three of my relatives the task to draw a nuffield tractor free hand. The youngest participant who was 7 gave no qualms and just got on withdrawing it to the best of her ability. My father who was 58 at the time didn’t think his drawing would be good enough and asked to restart multiple times. My grandad who had been drawing tractors once a week for me refused to draw a new one as he could remember having done it before, which was interesting because he couldn’t remember what I had told him 5 minutes before but could remember drawing a tractor after a week had passed. In the end I had to take a previously drawn tractor for this piece.
The varying outlines that were produced is what initially stood out from all the drawings, that even though they had the same subject matter but produced three different outcomes to the drawing that I had created. Isolating these outlines away from all the added details allowed them to shine through. I overlapped these images as they all tended to fit into each other relatively well. The contrast of the black wire against the white walls behind it truly captures the shapes allowing for the viewer to clearly see the outlines and where they overlap creating dark thick lines.
