Loss

From the drawings canvases where produced keeping clear communication with the viewer by:

• Exploring size of canvas to compound feelings, mood and emotion

• Using colour to enhance understanding and clarity

• Bold minimal lines outline the seriousness of the situation

• Building and working into layers to uncover dissolving memories

A further 100 A3 and A1 ink on paper drawings where made influenced by the first 100 drawings.

Further and deeper issues where explored around major operations, the process of caring and the stages of death. To say more than words:

Altering the thickness of lineCommunicating honestly, specifically and directly to teh viewerPositioning the viewer as the third personUsing space to communicateDrawing from memory

The process:

In the beginning ink on paper drawings were made surrounding the illness, loss and trauma.  The drawings were divided in to two piles: ones that did not work and ones that did.  The pictures that work, say more than words:

Communicating exact moments 

communicating honestly, specifically and directly to the viewer 

drawing only from memory.