Digital Drawings
These digital drawings are a part of my doctoral dissertation Becoming Within Entangled Spaces of Artistic Practice: An Illustrated Autoethnography. My research examines the impact of hybrid artistic space to provide a more focused portrait of artistic becoming in the twenty-first century. The drawings in the study were inspired by photographs of actual situations, places, events, and Instagram profiles submitted by users through an open call. Drawing digitally serves as a mediated in-between space; between photograph and event, virtual and tangible, image and text. I used my finger on the trackpad of my laptop, rendering space in a manner that is analogous to an unfilled coloring book. This aesthetic furthers the notion that this research is about becoming; always in a state of incompleteness, of possibility. I allow text and image to move with and through each other, simultaneously being affected by and affective to one another. Art making is valid and necessary in the process of understanding and theorizing. The arts are a form of research.
Details on this research and my full dissertation can be found here.
