Karen Gardner, ‘Get it Straight’, Pen on paper, 17/1/2014. Photo: Karen Gardner. Courtesy: of the artist.
To be straight, adhere to a defined path, avoid deviation, vigilentto a discipline…it’s the “stick-to-it” ness my mother would command. Flaws will be easily spotted. Can they be tolerated? Excused? Or found interesting? Where to finish each line was the only non-prescribed, creative result. Gestalt of something not straight.