Context is important to any art student or practicing artist. Part of the enjoyment of my artist research is making the sketchbook to put it into. One day, I would love to learn to book bind and letter press this part of my practice properly, but for now, pritt stick and moleskins will suffice.
For the last few months I have been looking at the strange way our commuting culture allows us to go against our core primal instincts. Often on trains and tubes commuters will fall asleep surrounded by complete strangers. This in itself goes against our pre programmed psychology. To fall asleep, we must entrust our surroundings completely and in a society paranoid to the extreme, this cultural normality contradicts the social mistrust paramount to city culture.
So thats the technical blah out of the way. I just am fascinated by drawing and people. Especially when those people don’t know I’m doing it. Creep.
Just a snap or two of the work I did in the first few weeks at Uni. These were my first lino cuts and wood cuts.
