Casting a net over the world

DRAWING WITHOUT AN OBJECTThere is no plan to my drawings. No graphical element and no clear idea that can be announced in words.   

A momentum a drawing might start with is a tentative gesture: A fine line that stretches and interloops to a loose tissue, with holes and stitches.  As I approach it densens, the farther I go away it stretches and tears. It distorts when looked at from a pointed angle. 

Or, alternatively, a tight parallel hatching,             that extends along a narrow line over the page in precise microgestures, building atop one another, stretching and shifting like nylon.  

The idea of a net resembles that of a grid – they limit the world to the space between the lines. A grid objectifies by dividing the world into even sections. A net is an open and elastic structure: It contorts and warps the imagepoints. Junctures lose regularity and become chaotic, overstretch and tear. Large voids open up in an edge of shrunken tissue. The Idea of a net as a stretching fabric at the base of an image accounts for a distortion with many perspectives.

To hold onto something that dissolves in the corner of your eye. To record a fading concentration in a focused (and detailed) drawing. A contradiction. To transfer perspective and distance onto an abstract drawing. To reproduce a likeness to: Roadmaps. Topography. Aerial views. Approach for a landing. Extreme closeups. A drawing on the edge to be identified. 

Memory Certain events get amplified, while others shrink or fade. Layers and unclear transitions form.May entail chaotic, undissolved zones that aren’t understood until much later.Memories are defined by gaps and omissions and shaped through oblique perspectives. A subjective, contorted image

BLANK SPACETwo images, a black and a white one, that is enclosed in it. The white blank spaces emerge from the black hatchings. Dark lines recede to become the contours of an unconscious statement. 

MINDSCAPE RUMINATIONTo think over. To overthink. In English (or French) also a zestful or neutral term for circling thoughts and the incessant speaking within yourself.(The German meaning is exclusively negative and refers to a pathological brooding and pondering, that is not orientated towards a result. Thinking in German is always orientated towards a result).An open and wandering drawing mimicks in it’s movements this hard to grasp form of thoughts:– To amp up and ebb away in volume (as if in sound)Not always specifically nameable. Digressing. Transparent. Unconscious.

Bad first draft The amorphous, badly put approaches that precede a clearly written out thought. The laborious, confusing battlefield of first draft before a neatly put message. Being almost able to say it. On the tip of my mind.You can’t erase your errors in a pencildrawing, just subordinate them.Meander/ maze

MINDSCAPE (PARTLY PROBLEMATIC)Trough a reverse hatching-movement contours of a new shape emerge. Friction of drawn fabric.                          Holes appear through an imperfect match of layers. Tiniest fractions and aberrations open up new levels in a drawing. An error rips (ripples) through the entire fabric and becomes a motive, the more layers add up.Long hole (in tights). Laufmasche. Fragments do not connect to a whole. Shifted. Delayed.To trace after the shifts and irregularities as intricately as possible. A feverish search for the smallest unit. Analytically overeager. Scrutiny to a problematic extent.To loop together, to tangle up, to warpTracing the event that caused the error and steers the drawing.

The drawing with pencil and paper becomes a sensorium. Every streak is equally as important, an object, a point on the map.