Drawing as thinking and phenomenology

Pastels (2020) | Line drawings (2015) | Face (2019)

I use drawings to feel my way through thinking processes, to make visible, and as a kind of phenomenology. The pastels below tune to non-visual spatial qualities (atmospheres, affect) and relational conditions (‘feeling’ others and the relations between). The line drawings were produced during my doctoral research. They map body-space-time relations during several dérives. The drifting face embodies displaced identity. All drawings are preludes to body-based and/or spatial design work. They are movements towards Édourd Glissant’s concept of ‘archipelic thought’: ‘Archipelic thought is a philosophy of trembling…it explodes onto all horizons, in all directions’[1]. It ‘recognises the scope of the imaginary representations of the Trace, which it confirms’.[2]

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[1] Édouard Glissant, La Cohée du Lamentin (Gallimard, 2005), 75.

[2] Glissant, Traité du tout-monde (Gallimard, 1997), 31.