So far, throughout these lectures and tutorials I have been drawing to assist my theoretical understanding of drawing philosophy and what it really means. I have been concentrating on the understanding of the facts of representation verses expression, abstraction and performance, and also personal embodiment in my work. I have been using a range of processes to produce drawings in relation to these aspects.
Using my previous style of drawing in more of a representational drawing and stretching my own understanding of my style and pushing my confidence with these new drawings that I would not usually create. I drew different versions of representation and expression next to each other in comparison in a way that I understood the theory of Collingwood.
Practicing performance and use of materials in an unconventional way is another boundary I have been pushing throughout my drawings. This in terms of using bleach as an unconventional way. Bleach is something that is very hard to control and not always a known outcome occurs. Not drawing with a pencil or pen asks whenever anything else is really a drawing. Another way I have been adopting this theory is by drawing without looking. This links in with the expression vs. representation aspect. By looking we are only seeing not feeling. Here is were the embodiment relates as I have also been involving myself through my drawings by feeling the materials and using my hands to make the marks and also my feelings, involving my actual mind and thoughts processing this into drawings.
Throughout all this I feel I need to create a hypothesis for my work to build upon –
Are there really certain types of drawing or does it all come under one category? How can we really define a drawing? How far can this definition be stretched?