9" x 12" studies of male torso

...drawings about seeing, thinking about seeing, finding the energy of the line, the tension in the neck, the posture, mapping the space of gesture allowing the most simple shift of shoulders to make a statement about the presence of the figures. I have made many drawings of dancers in very exagerated postures from the work of Martha Graham. I think these are more from Balenchine, using the body as an instrument in space. My attempts to reduce political content (gender, age, race) is to allow the status of the figure to be found by the viewer.

My struggle to energize the space takes place on a relatively small scale to quickly capture something of the model. I found these drawings in a pile of papers and have included them in this packet because I might have thrown them out in my attempt to clean up after years of making images. After reading Conversation before the end of Time ( Gablik) I was overwealmed with a sense of post-apocolyptic guilt. But then, I was also reading other things that told me that this is my work. I have given a lifetime of seeing to this and to deny it would be to erase all that I have learned from seeing.