Unearthed

With awareness of the fact that I don't produce enough drawings to sustain my painting practice and the goal of regaining a skill that I have somewhat lost, I have started going back to unfinished painting ideas to make them into drawings instead. One image I found while looking through old photographs of my past studios is this one, based on a drawing of the United States I made from memory in 2005. Unfortunately, I cannot play this game with myself any more because I've compared the maps I make to the 'real' maps of the US too many times. The images I remember are no longer tied to my knowledge of the US but to my knowledge of US maps, so the goal of an honest representation of what I think the United States 'is' is unattainable. But here's what I thought once upon a time:



This painting was from a time when I was (even more than I am now) lost in the wilderness of painting technique. I'll be using this image to make a drawing from in the future, but for now it's just good to look at.