3 galleries from sketchbooks
In the first gallery, I am sharing a bit of my tandem sketchbook practice. Sometimes I swing by and remove a sketch and post a new one on top.
I think this is where the party starts. I did these magic maker drawings during a, for lack of a better word, psychotic episode. I recognize in them the wild careening and confusion, both the ensnaring dangers and the uninhibited enjoyment of the perimeters of the mind. While the drawings speak to a disturbed mind, I also see them as direct and robust, and actually, in many of them, absolute clarity.
In the painting section of this website you can see I have repurposed the first two as part of a series, Documents of Documents from the Schizoaffective Spectrum.
This is a zine made in my mid-twenties in the old school Kinko’s way (before Kinko’s was FedEx) of cutting up things from my sketchbooks, gluing them down and Xeroxing. Some of it is from the lunatic fringe and much is from the quagmire of depression. It represents the mechanics of my emotional processing. A lot was done in hospitals. It’s pretty intense I think. It’s actually one of my favorite things I’ve done. I’ve given quite a few out and don’t get much feedback so I think it might scare people. I know some of it is hard to read, meaning illegible, but I hope not impossible. I’m going to resist the temptation of taking some of the darker stuff out because I think art should explore darkness. I personally appreciate it when it does. I have repurposed a couple page fragments for part of the series in the painting section. The last sentence haunts me. That I wrote I was getting a thrill off watching a fellow inmate suffer. Did I mean it? I don’t think I did. I think I was horrified.
