Drawing Is

Drawing is... ...essential to my life, my need-to-mark work to claim, touch, make visible that which exists hidden within the thinness of a sheet of paper; to see rather than merely look, my eyes, lodestones for edge, shadow, form, position; to ingest that which meets my eye, then loose it through the conduit of my fingers, revealing traces in the paper of a reality such as only I can see.

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Teslim Badmus

Date: 5/3/2013 8:02:00 AM

you are creating drawing by writing in this poem.it is a good work of imagining life with painting nd writing into drawing.....lovely

Jack Jordan
Date: 5/3/2013 9:14:00 AM

Thank you, Teslim. I appreciate the comment... Jack

Painted Hunter

Date: 5/2/2013 1:21:00 PM

I used to draw a lot...never was the best...I've got too many damn hobbies. Great poem!

Jack Jordan
Date: 5/2/2013 4:35:00 PM

I taught drawing for almost three decades. I'm convinced that virtually anyone can learn to draw, so long as there's not a need for perfection, that is, don't reject your drawing because it doesn't look exactly like what you are drawing. Everyone sees differently. Look at "Drawing On the Right Side of the Brain." I know about too many hobbies all too well... Jack

Timothy Hicks

Date: 5/2/2013 10:02:00 AM

In the words of Sherlock Holmes, "You see, but you do not observe."... I am not an artist when it comes to drawing, but I do feel the same when I write. Creating a vision that only I could see... wow! I like how your work steers clear from cliches, and it's strange how I can almost TELL you wrote it, simply because of the style it's written in.

Jack Jordan
Date: 5/2/2013 10:08:00 AM

Sherlock was right. It's true every time for me. If I think about t, it turn out crap. I do seem to write in a couple of voices. Maybe a little multiple personality?