calligraphy, 1, 2,3, 2012

First entries for this year in the 15nth sketchbook, or else "the red hand-bound one". It is another small sketchbook made from discarded photocopy paper I salvaged from a previous job. I stitched the papers together and subsequently hand-bound them, creating three separate sections. The cover is also made from discarded, red, book-binding fabric I found one day as I was walking around in my neighborhood. The drawings that appear here are in the second section that is titled, after-all rather inaccurately, "toys". They are experiments on the use of letters as shapes and not as carriers of meaning. The notes are either gibberish or two personal and impulsive to have any conceptual connotations. In a manner they are allusions to the calligraphy seen in Oriental drawings that only has aesthetic and not narrative purpose to the eyes of the Western admirer.   

The fourteenth notebook (the one about Alice)

I find "Alice" to be irresistible as a subject. I almost wish I was not as fascinated by her because so many artists (and lesser artists) have worked on this theme. Yet, I do like working on ideas that have provided the leitmotif of multiple artworks throughout the history of art, religious subjects included and of course Ophelia. I love them all. To Alice and the rest of the characters from both "Alice in Wonderland" and my personal favorite "through the looking glass" I decided to dedicate this sketchbook (other-wisely called "the fourteenth"). As expected I could not force myself to keep a sole topic and I added clouds to the experiment.

The book in question is one of the thinner ones I have made so far. It has only 20 A5 pages. I made it from re-claimed photocopy paper and sustainable handmade packaging paper. The media of drawing are pens, coloured pencils and oil-colours. It is also hand-bound and stitched.

I would like to mention that I keep  all rights regarding the images and texts, but that I would offer some of them for non-commercial use under the condition that my name is clearly stated along the artwork. It would also be very polite if you actually gave notice of your intention to do so by sending me a message here. Please enjoy and don't forget that you can:
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"the girl who liked dressing as a fox and go down rabbit-holes" 

"Two stitched clouds" & "Fat Alice"

"Rain-bow"

"On a bright, cloudy day"

"Figure and landscape"

"Cat-Alice" & "the northern cat"

"the northern cat inverted" & "more clouds"

"Humpty-Dumpties, 1&2"

"Sent in the clouds" & "naked Alice with male genitalia"

"Siamese Alice" & "The Mad-hater's resort"

"Alices and clouds"-the cover

back cover

second front cover

    

Oil colours

original fabric

"fragmented fields" (oil-colours on printed cotton fabric)

Unlike my practice until now, in this painting I upgraded the scale. The frame is approximately 80 cm wide. As for the content, I would like to keep my silence and not explain what I had in mind concept-wise, and let the viewer create his or her own narratives. The tittle is partly informative as it has allusions to the subject of representing fragmented spaces. Click on image to ENLARGE. 

Sad

In the box, ink on found piece of glossy paper
Sad 1 :ink on numbered paper
Little Mister BooHoo, markers on random piece of glossy paper
Non-Available : ink on random piece of paper


I have to admit that my drawings are getting more and more self-referential (as if this is not obvious enough). Truth is I also have the tendency to make them sad. Also, I created a new blog about the character of the third drawing. His name is Mr BooHoo that is also the tittle of the blog. The two first chapter of the story of his life have already been published there. Visit and enjoy.

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