I’ve never seen a real person be completely still; not a living person anyway. But all of my my work has always been about life. To speak about life, I employ a unique technique of dynamic line renderings that came about as a result of my experiences studying motion for my work in stop-motion clay animation combined with my classical figurative sculpture training.
Life is so much about time. When I sculpt, the process is slow. One piece takes months to complete, but when I draw I want be free of all that. I am drawing a glance, a glimmer you might miss if you blinked. Like so many memories its hard to know much about what you saw, but you know exactly how it felt. It is that essential knowledge, more like an instinct than a thought, that I am pursuing when I draw.
I try to carry some of that essential knowledge back into my sculptures, in a more reflective meditative way. Drawn from life, these Dynamic Line Drawings are an important element in my working method as a sculptor, but also stand alone as individual works.