This is a selection of what I call my passenger drawings. I've sketched
aboard everything from subways to fishing boats, freight trains to airplanes.
The premise of these drawings is to capture the moment of observing. The
choice of black pen makes each line resolute. By negating the ability to
erase, spontaniety becomes essential, and the process of seeing and drawing
becomes the work.
While adding another element, the coloured pencils continue this function.
Though a range of effects can be created by blending the colours, every
mark remains. The wax pencils are also effective in capturing the environmental
moment as their performance is affected by certain conditions. Each drawing
is an attempt to sieze the ability to comprehend on the page the infinite
range of information before me. It is not my aim, or desire, to capture
an exact likeness of the scene I attempt. Though I try to be honest to that
view, I must also be honest to myself. If I were to replicate the image
as any eye could see it, I would feel I had failed. The drawing should reflect
the event of observing at a specific moment. There is an environment for
every experience and an ashtray can be as potent a vehicle for autobiography
as an alpine lake. I consider my sketchbooks a visual journal.
