Hallo Art Friends,
Here's my page 8 of this art book and journey I've been documenting and sharing around... Scroll down for the links to all the previous posts.
This drawing/ page was created on the big ferry going from Rosyth to Zeebrugge, I believe: the first major stage of the journey, where I left solid ground of Scotland and was officially 'journeying'. I had a beautiful time on the ferry - bumped into someone I knew from art school, and then had a chat in very bad Greek with the captain of the ship, which was one of the big Greek inter-island ferries in a previous incarnation.
I felt this strange freedom and fear - perfectly balanced - as the trip unfolded: all my neuroses and built-up tensions from living in a city and mourning multiple losses... all hyper-present - and all falling away at the very same time. A fascinating catharsis.
Sometimes, I would repeat figures in the making of this book: I was drawing on a big ream of papers, one drawing after another, and the imagery accumulated - I could see through several sheets of what I'd drawn before. Then at the end of the pile, when it came back to the first page I'd drawn again - I bound them into a proper book...
The text in this page expresses the disjointedness of my mental-emotional-physical-spiritual body at the time: to me, it shows the kind of grasping hunger that one easily develops in a city - a needy kind of reaching, always, for what never fills one up...
Again, the act of just moving created this dynamic of emptying, and this felt euphoric in certain moments - though it equally felt terrifying and vulnerable, too.
Blessings on your journey through today,
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The previous posts made about these art book pages can be viewed via the following links:
@clareartista/a-journey-from-here-to-here-cover-and-page-1
@clareartista/a-journey-from-here-to-here-page-2
@clareartista/a-journey-from-here-to-here-page-3
@clareartista/a-journey-from-here-to-here-page-4
@clareartista/a-journey-from-here-to-here-page-5