The text in this work is a poem by Carla Nappi from Uninvited: Talking Back to Plato, by Carrie Jenkins and Carla Nappi. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press. 2020. These drawings are my contribution to The Uninvited Project, a collection of artworks curated by the authors, Carrie Jenkins and Carla Nappi, made in response to the book. Visit the Uninvited Project site for more information and great work by a variety of other artists. https://www.uninvitedproject.com/.
More of these things: drawing motivated by scene descriptions in early modern plays. These come from The Betrothal, by Maurice Maeterlinck: something about a curtain, a door with a "formidable lock," and caverns leading to a miser's den. These pages are part of a work in progress. Will I ever include text from these plays? I'm not sure about that yet.
Sketchbook with text from August Strindberg. Drawings distracted observations from our front porch.
Caws, Mary Ann. Metapoetics of the Passage: Architextures in Surrealism and After. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982.
Steve Stelling, Commonplace Highlights (Nancy’s Monstrous Openings)
A few years ago I put together a commonplace book. The quotations and
excerpts I collected are unified around my interests in critical theory
(so-called!) and perception. So there’s that. I’ve also got a surplus of
orphaned drawings that haven’t been adopted by any of my own words. Pages like theseare the results of
grafting these things together with an eye toward their associative
potential. In a way, I suppose these are my “process” drawings; this is
my thought process. If I were to make an aesthetics textbook, this is how I'd want it to look.
