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This is the corkscrew series. Again there are
about 70 drawings of this corkscrew
and again it was like the brush.
This has very kind of human characteristics:
move the arms up and down.
so all of these are drawings that
the shadows are as important as the object
to me. It has a very human characteristics.
They remind me, there's a series of
artworks by Goya called "The Disasters of War."
There's one famous one of these prisoners lined up against the wall
and there's a firing squad shooting at them
one of the prisoners has his arms thrown up, very famous painting.
And thats, some of these remind me of that, and then of course there's the
the crucifix quality of them also,
in some of them. You probably wouldn't consider them portraits, the human
portrait series because they're all different people
but this is clearly a series in the sense that
all the same thing. I really like Hokusai
and his idea of doing this drawing the same thing over and over again.
There's an Italian artist named Morandi
who also he'd
has the same objects and almost all those paintings
so I think an artist when they do the same thing over and over again
the same object they don't do with the same way every time. They see more
and more into it
and they are able to get more and more out of it.
So here's the first row in the brush drawings. It's
a bristle brush but here's this red paper band that goes around it with Chinese
writing on it.
I really did get better
at getting the essence of this brush the more and more I drew it.
There would be less and less of me and more...more of
the brush. What I do like about this is you know
I tried a lot of different things and doing these drawings.