PLAY.
These sketches began out of necessity; a way to plan out the compositions of my works on canvas before I paint the color blocked arches. They’ve since turned into a cathartic way to get out of my head with pencil to paper. I decided to make these sketches a daily practice. I’m amazed by the unexpected forms that appear when I sketch for play rather than planning. I’m discovering that there are endless ways to position and layer arches. The forms/patterns that these positions create are so much more vast than I ever imagined before starting this practice. I’m excited to see where these lead me.
"I’m just, you know, kind of happy in the doing of things. Even just having a great cup of coffee is happiness. Getting an idea, or realizing an idea. Working on a painting…working on a piece of sculpture, working on a film. One thing I noticed is that many of us, we do what we call work for a goal. For a result. And in the doing, it’s not that much happiness. And yet that’s our life going by. If you’re transcending every day, building up that happiness, it eventually comes to: it doesn’t matter what your work is. You just get happy in the work. You get happy in the little things and the big things. And if the result isn’t what you dreamed of, it doesn’t kill you, if you enjoyed the doing of it. It’s important that we enjoy the doing of our life." - David Lynch