Series of 21 drawings exhibited and published in a book (edition of 50) by Sans Titre (2016). Edited by Charles Levai.
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From the preface:
Try to visualize something. A pencil, a flower, a coin. Even with a great deal of focus it is hard to truly hold that object in one’s mind. Imagined movement produces a more complete experience. There is no need to fixate on a single detail because as one aspect blurs another comes into focus and the scene continues. Even as the visual experience stumbles the remaining senses leap to fill in the gaps.
I like to play the game of drawing without looking at the page. If the subject is a person this becomes quite an intimate experience. The eye traces the subject and the hand follows through this synchronized action. The visual becomes tactile. Touching eyelashes, cheeks and lips. In adolescence we begin to discover new potential for our youthful imagination. Be loving in your fantasies because, of course, they also bare a weightless touch.
Masturbation is this process in reverse. Here one attempts to translate the imaged visual into the simulated tactile. If the illusion is successfully cultivated then the climax is that fixed image that is otherwise so hard to hold in one’s mind. However, instead of producing a pencil, flower or coin, to orgasm is to arrive at both everything and nothing, the blank page.
In creating this series of drawings the imagined becomes tactile, which in turn becomes visual. What ends up on the page is only the lurching touch of visual memory. The potential sensory richness of each scene is only briefly alluded to. Perhaps then it is up to the viewer to visually trace these images and to begin the game again on paper or elsewhere.
