V6 No3. Kids of Lower Utopia : Letters from the Front Lines.

 

 

V6 No3 Page1 Cover, ( 2002, pencil on paper, 33" x 51" )

( A-work-in-progress - 6 years in and 5 pages to go!)

In this series of drawings - this book, I am drawing a sequential 55 page story. Each page measures 30" x 50", and all are done primarily with a .3 mec-pencil on paper.

In this, my 8th book I am drawing, through the lens of Zen Non-dualism, an allegorical dream in which my heroine; River Scout Finnagain, travels through archetypal stages of realizations to finally arrive at her Self.

This story couldn't be told better in another medium (nothing holds more directly the silent life of observation-in-light as a metaphor undisguised) then the pencil. My drawings are spoken in a careful language of conscious vectors summing into "still-points" where life's attention waits gathering silence. My pages are a sequence of images in a formal proximity that initiates a narrative (inductive-deductive) flow which solicits from the viewer intuitive leaps to bridge the space between pages - leaps through their own non-linear space of Self.

Art is a metaphor for being fully conscious, it mimics Self-Realization by seeing so thoroughly, so seemingly instantaneously "Now" that the viewer is suspended in "Aesthetic Arrest" and experiences observation free of thought. This is my Work.