Drawings As Process

Today my daughter Tori and I attended a workshop run by Tony Buzan, the foremost proponent of mindmapping, who was encouraging us to believe in our creative ability and engage our brains! A good workshop that aimed to show nothing is impossible and that we should all day dream every day!

In the process of generating ideas and creating other work I have also been drawing! A few have asked me where is the drawing - well the subject is Drawing As Process which I translate as incorporating drawing into other practices and using it in the process of making work.

So here are just a few of the drawings that I have used to develop ideas and demonstrate to others what I have in mind, especially where the actual thing cannot be realised, either because it is too large and expensive, or because the technology may not exist to do it. Just because the means are not available to me does not mean I can't dream!

First of all playing around with the triangle - so versatile and also stable and strong in terms of construction - can be used in groups to form other shapes...









Then inside at home imagining an installation of colour tubes on the wall, being lit by redirected sunlight...

And a composite picture of photographs I took of a mirror and CDs in my bedroom, using them to direct light...

And finally a floor plan of a Kingston University building with a photograph of one corridor where I have thought about placing an installation... placing the sculpture there and waiting for the sun to reach the right angle to illuminate it...