Repositioning Life: The Path of Drawing
The drawing experiments carried out between 2019 and 2020 gave me a firm conviction about the repositioning of painting, and eventually led me to reorganize the way I live and the place where I work. Around the time I began to feel the need for a studio, L found a site that felt exactly right, and I immediately designed the house and studio to be built there with my own hands.
Building the house was meant to create a life somewhat distant from the world, where I could fully devote myself to working. And that is how I have lived. In such an environment I can work whenever I wish, maintaining the time, conditions, and concentration necessary for drawing. After washing away the fatigue of the day, I can move through complete silence with a clear mind and sharpened senses, focusing every nerve on the work. That, in turn, changed the direction of my drawing.
d-360, 2021
charcoal & oriental ink with water on traditional paper, 201 x 150.3 cm
d-367, 2021
oriental ink with water on traditional paper, 149.3 x 78.6 cm
When the body and mind become clear, one begins to realize that everything is connected through the body. I have always understood things only after my senses perceived them first, but this experience felt somewhat different. What surpassed everything I had studied throughout my life did not come through thought, but through the body. The body seems to point toward a place entirely different from thought.
What matters now is no longer squeezing ideas out of the head, but the condition of the body, the material, and the sense of scale within the drawing.
d-401, 2022
charcoal & graphite on paper, 65.8 x 49.9 cm
d-778, 2022
charcoal with medium, 79.4 x 109.1 cm
d-854, 2023
charcoal & oriental ink with water on traditional paper, 201 x 150.3 cm
d-853, 2023
charcoal & pigment with water on canvas, 80 x 109.5 cm