I saw glorious hands done in pencil on paper at a local high school. Looking at this, I realize I could use a hand workshop, or a week of drawing nothing but hands in different positions. The rear hand looks a bit claw-ish.
On the other hand (no pun intended), I could work on studies forever and never get to an actual painting/ collage or whatever I’m doing with these.
This is a 6X6 inch panel, pencil sketch. It’s one of those gessobord panels and the pencil smudges ever so wonderfully on the just right surface.
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My work deals with themes of human and nonhuman intelligence, and what it means to return home when the nature of home itself is nebulous and undefined. As an interdisciplinary artist with homebases in painting and printmaking, I explore the interstitial spaces between these and other media, relishing the borderlands–the slippage between idea and medium. Lens based ways of looking interact with a fierce love of materiality that echoes the earth itself, and the ways in which humanity interacts with the homeostatic systems that comprise Gaia, the living earth.
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I really like this drawing, D. Also makes me realize I’ve never tried this pose. Something for our future agenda! 😀
Hey M, this is kapotasana, a very deep backbend from the 2nd series of Ashtanga yoga. It’s a fun pose to work towards!