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I Dream With My Hands + The Broken Line:
A Drawing Show

The mark; the scratch; the wound is the fundamental experience. Is what pushes outward and inward, is incredible impetus towards realizing consciousness. In drawing, the initial mark is the wound through which only an honest, concerted effort may make sense of, may justify, may heal. Rupturing the purity of a blank canvas is easy as drawing breath, producing a finished drawing can be like running a marathon. What is essential is the faith in the power of pushing on, in continuance, in hope.

It is strange, though, because

Most things remind me of the apocalypse...we live in interesting times, as the Chinese are said to say;)...what to do, what to do. This is my counting. This is my reckoning up, the tallies of the games of the day, back and forth, back and forth...too much information layered upon too many ideas, and forever searching for just that one idea, that one image, that perfect picture...

I'm getting closer...

and I fall away.

These are a record.

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