Project #1 Reflection

While I may not have provided the blow-by-blow process of creating my final project--in reality, it didn't take shape until I drew it--I do have some reflections upon it. My topic was to create a "drawing of a drawing." After some feedback, I ruminated on what asect of the drawing I really wanted to focus on. Initially, it was the pencil--to think of absolutely critical aspect which is normally completely ignored (parallel to the brush in a painting or the keyboard for a novel). But the idea of the pencil is the idea of the artist and the act of creating. Ironically, this epiphany came to me as I was drawing the drawing of the pencil.

As it is, my final project is a drawing of a pencil (unencumbered) drawing a picture of an artist, who is subsequently drawing back, creaing a loop between the image and the viewer. That loop is meant to signify the spontaneous reactions the artist creates within the viewer through the piece he creates via the pencil which, at this point, is drawing him.

Drawing this has really solidified the idea in my mind that Carl was trying to relay, in terms of thinking about the instrument as much as the art, or even the instrument as the art itself.