Monday, 25 February 2013

Exploring mark making through the psychology of blind drawing



To explore mark making in this piece I further developed my exploration into blind drawing. I feel that blind drawing is the way to explore the psychology of mark making and how without the analytical function of our eyes we are able to explore a freer expression of our inner psyche.
In my previous project I redrew many of my blind drawings in order to bring back a form of control into an uncontrolled expression. I discovered that despite blind drawings having a more serendipitous way of producing marks and compositions we are still limited by our own bodies and the kind of movements we think to make. I tried to combat this idea of returning to my own archetypal gestures by asking another person to dictate what I drew whilst still remaining blind. This included the marks I made and the duration for which I drew them as well as what medium I used. This brought in a new layer of controlling my uncontrolled gestures whilst still introducing new and unexpected elements into my work. I then redrew it to produce a drawing that is both an expression and repression of collaborating two minds.

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