From the archives:
defined by what it's free of...the grace, the drape, the liquidair, where shuffling gauzegives way, writing the bendof torso, an ambition of words,of space, of not often enoughexploring, hidingor not hiding,the cloth that tellsbetrays the carefulcovering and uncovering,the moving and falling,the piling of layers takenaway, removed aswe find our - silence.
.-- a poem and drawing by Mar Walker aka Mistryel
This is an extended doodle, and all of the words of the poem appear in the drawing. I drew this during a lecture at a conference on metaphor and the book ta few years ago. It was done in a little leather book that is very small. The medium is pencil. I have boosted the contrast to make it easier to see. It is one of a handful of small works where I have tried to combine drawings with words....