Ergo Ego: Pen Drawings

2009/2010 Inkpens of varying quality.

This was my first experiment with 2 tone drawing. I literally started out with no logic or idea behind it. I drew a few random shapes on the page and then everything just took off.

I would draw on this page whenever I was using public transportation to get to school or home or if I just happened to have it with me.

In the beginning i drew shapes with no individual meaning, which belonged to a greater partern of similar shapes. Some of these bigger paterns may have held some symbolic meaning, but none that was important to me. At some point when the page was growing more and more full of random blotches of inkwork, the empty white spaces began to speak to me and revealed their shapes. I incorporated some of the random shapes with this new vision. And thus i gained my first experience of drawing for purpose. Considering that I was atleast 50% of the time drawing while sitting in bumpy busses or trains, I was not very fixated on the corectness of lines and shapes. If I accidentally drew a line that connected 2 shapes I would connect them. This kind of free form drawing was very meditational for me and yielded a high degree of satisfaction.

I likened drawing during pt (public transport) to having either a post traumatic symptom such as shellshock, parkinsons, epilepsia or a spastic ailment, as the degree of control was to some extent out of my hands.

This led to the main aim/ focus and intention of my drawing. I filled out the rest of the empy spaces with abstract stylized words, which i intended to depict and describe the feelings and social implications of living/dealing with such an ailment.

2010-20?? Inkpen...And wine blotch.

Second attempt at free-form drawing. Again my method of approach was simply to draw some simple shapes randomly placed across the page. A lot of the drawing was still done during pt and some of the best things in this one came out while on the go. I must also admit that I had been experimenting with altered states of mind/conciousness and how my expression and abiltity to capture the images on paper change for the better or worse. I found that I was a lot more sensitive to the empty spaces shapes potential, which resulted in some varying degrees of success in depiciting my inner visuals. When I showed this to my parents one of the first things they mentioned was that it looked like I was drawing Fractals.

I was not aware of the full meaning of what a Fractal entailed, and so I felt that I was being labeled and to spite their good intentions I drew a shape that had no resemblance to the previous styles, so as to break with the *box.* Im not sure where to take this from here on out, but it is still incomplete to me.

2009/2010 Inkpen

I remember that I was enraged over some trivial matter, but none the less enraged and decided that it might be a good experiment to try and draw and capture that feeling on paper. This was my result and as I came to a conclusion i felt the anger had vented into my drawing, and left inside me was now the wish to communicate my thoughts and feelings clearly.

2009/2010 Inkpen

Inspired by a sticker i saw at my host-families daughter's house in Texas. I lived in Mineral Virginia.

2008/2009 Sketched in with pencil and then inked in I do believe.

I tried to work together with my friend Mohammed and do a flash animation, but we never got that far.

The idea behind the cartoon was supposed to be insomnia, and I based it mostly on what Mohammed could tell me from his own experiences with insomnia.

An attempt at creating legible silhouettes using the same free-form blots. I also attempted to draw contour lines while still adhering to the blots exterior.

Interesting blob men. Should do more.

Initially (blue ink) I sketched the scene one evening as I was waiting for the train by my home town, and I have already begun to see the web I'd spun. People ask me now who was behind the seperation, and only my memories can unlock the truth. Exclusion is an interesting tool for depiction. The black ink is from the horizon of a peak at a hotel resort in Mali.

Inspired by the Greenpeace documentary: The Cove