I am making the same number of lines every day and recording the time it takes me to make that set number of lines.
Each day the time fluctuates. I use my iphone to record the time by using the voice memo function – the by product of getting an accurate time in minutes and seconds is a recording of each drawing.
I started to record the drawing process in the installation room at college and have continued to do this, primarily for the time accuracy. These are not specialist recordings. Of course the acoustics in my home are very different from the breeze-blocked room at colllege. What I have noticed, however, is the quality and speed of the lines I am drawing which vary quite dramatically. This may be a mood thing or (more likely) a time thing – as I said in my last post the drawings are becoming so much a part of my routine that they are slotted in across the day – much like everything else I do. I found myself completing some of the smaller daily sketchbook drawings at the kitchen table whilst my kids were getting ready for school.
This isn’t because I feel they are unimportant but I have definitely decided, particularly with the smaller, shorter activities that I’m more interested in the time they take rather than the specific outcome. Some of them are not going to be resolved as well as they would need to be for the degree show I certainly won’t be presenting everything. I want my submission to the show to be carefully considered and impactful.
The larger drawing, though, is recorded every day. It sits in my office/space at home on its trestle table – the three sections folded in on themselves, taking up almost all the floor space.
Tomorrow I am taking it into college to film and document it for our degree catalogue. Perhaps it might be interesting to take the drawing to other places and make recordings there?
Something to consider.
