I have set my self a new goal, I suppose you could call it a sort of a New Years resolution, only it is not. I am going to make a drawing of my father. Now there are a number of problems with this. The first is that he died nearly four years ago, which is a bit of a restriction but not the biggest problem I will have to over come. The biggest problem is all the emotional baggage you bring when drawing someone you knew really well who is no longer alive (that's putting it mildly!) So how to approach this? Well I have no real time constraints so I will make numerous preliminary sketches just to try and get the right look and feel. I am working from a series of photographs I made back in the mid 1970s when I had my first camera. Now here is another emotional baggage moment as my father is the same age in the photo as I am now. Again this is an interesting question - what tense do I use? The photo is nearly 35 years old and so I should us the past tense, yet the image is of a person frozen in time so is it is? Or should it be was? I rathe prefer is even though it may not be grammatically. Using a photograph as a prime source for the work is also interesting. The photograph has no life it just exists where as the art work will always have life and emotion or at least it should have. Perhaps this is one of the a sons why I am less motivated to make photographs at the moment? I am looking for animus rather than lifeless. Who knows.
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