11.30.2008

PAPER WORKS

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Two samples from a recent suite of ink drawings on paper, both 8.5 x 11 in.

These drawigs were made possible by the discovery of modestly priced brush pens in a Little Tokyo bookstore. I have a fetish for all things Japanese from pens to girls. Knowing what the pens were designed for I couldn't help but think of calligraphy while drawing. But they are also the result of wanting to return to a faster, less restricted method of making work. To describe them with a simple metaphor, they are --------- (censored by the author, after some feedback I decided I got a little bit too Buckowski there).

_DM