365 Days: A love Affair with Drawing

This work was an on-going project titled 365 Days: A Love Affair with Drawing.  It began on February 14, 2012 and ended February 13, 2013. Each day served as a re-investigation and re-discovery of my love of drawing, particularly the human figure. I am an artist and educator, and, like many other artists, I continually face the challenge of carving out time and space for my work within the demands of life and a full-time job, however grateful I am for teaching. This project helped provide a means and method to deal with that challenge. 

The work speaks of process: layers of time, layers of work, and layers of material. The body of work hung on a traditional wire clothesline with wooden clothes pins one day after another, one drawing after another to represent daily work and form a pattern of repetition much like a calendar spread out in continuity. The daily drawings form a visual diary and dialog of reconnection to my first love, drawing.