2012

Ink and Pencil on Paper

Signed and dated on bottom right hand corner

Unframed Dimensions: 38” x 50” (1168mm x 2032mm)

Consignment for ROOQ Gallery

In Private Collection

It's easy to draw straight lines with a ruler.  Or a T-square. Or a drafting machine. Or a computer.  It's easy to project a photo onto a blank canvas and copy the projected image faithfully.  It's easy to use a grid system when scaling up from smaller photographs.  It's easy to follow the converging guidelines representing a two-point perspective.  It's not so easy to draw straight lines using nothing but your hand and your eye.  With a pen.  In ink.  Without perspectival guides.  

"Building Blocks" is an attempt at free-hand drawing the myriad straight lines of Midtown Manhattan without resorting to mechanical methods.   However, by using white ink on black paper, the medium still suggests a linkage to traditional architectural blueprints.  That is: the beautiful and smelly dyeline negatives of the original black ink lines and dots on film, rendered using technical pens at now obsolete drafting tables.