Took a small sketchbook and drew sensations of being in the forest using graphite stick and colour conte pastels. Drawings began with feelings of tension in the body from sitting, standing, the cold air, smells, sounds and marks were made in relation to position. For each drawing I wrote a few lines of text.
I then found myself back at the same oak and drew my sense of the oak, repeated this with a nearby yew.
These drawings meant more than the earlier depictions, the process was more engaging, and drawings more interesting. This will form the exercises for the workshops with children allowing me to focus on the more adult themes in my research.
I used this method for the lunch time drawing group at work, interestingly two drawings had similar relational marks in terms of position.
Reflect on the anthropomorphic tree drawings previously made, the light lines that suggest human and tree, and why and how this could be a useful drawing method. The trees I’ve drawn have allowed me to project feelings, ideas and snippets of narrative that are disassociated by one degree.
Drawing myself through the trees. That this could provide a way to explore the issue of shame more freely.
began to look at other artists who have worked with ideas of shame.
Kara Walker
http://learn.walkerart.org/karawalker/
Penny Siopsis
Pinky Pinky and the unspoken shame of rape and violence against young women and girls and of relationships
http://www.stevenson.info/exhibitions/siopis/images/siopis-love.jpg
Shame and gaze
http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/audio/sex-and-shame-visual-arts
