The Paper Crane

Well it took me longer than I thought to get these up. These are not the best pho­to­graph doc­u­men­ta­tions of my new pieces, it’s hard to get them per­fect with­out good light­ing. How­ever, I feel so good about them–haven’t truly liked one of my pieces in a while and these just came very natiru­ally and intu­itively. I have been enjoy­ing the process of mak­ing them. Each piece is gouache, col­ored pen­cil and graphite on paper. For a while now I have been obsessed with fol­low­ing lines. The his­tory of a line. I’ve found that the most inter­est­ing place to see just that is on the side walk. I was pho­tograph­ing the pat­terns of cracks in the side­walk and then draw­ing them, which evolved into these paint­ings below. A begin­ing of side­walk cracks becom­ing some­thing else com­pletely. The have no hid­den mean­ing, or any mean­ing at all really. They are sim­ple just intu­itive marks on the paper and sim­ply noth­ing more. Yet they have given me more plea­sure than any other work I have ever made.
I hope you enjoy them.

Posted by Dee Clements on Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 at 3:55 pm. You can follow responses through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.