Day 41

'Ring any Bells?', Pen on Paper

The last of the 'Ulster Museum' series of studies a selection of bronze bells, the small one of Japanese origin and the larger of the two of Chinese origin.

It's been a hectic week thus far, I've  been able to fit in the drawings with ease but had a lot of trouble catching up on the text... and yes I am aware that the project is called the '365 Draws of the Year' but I am finding that the text has been becoming more and more important as the whole things move along. So it seems more and more necessary to ensure that I shoe horn some thoughts into a few short paragraphs to help rationalise my drawing for the day. Up to this point the content of the text has been dependent on what I have drawn rather than the other way around, this means that most of the thoughts about why I've actually chosen to draw something are retroactive, so is it then that the text is an end to a means, as opposed to a means to an end? Rather than being something that I do in order to achieve something else, it is something that helps me to think about what it is exactly I have just achieved. Is it then conceivable then that over the course of the project that the writing involved will end up taking more presidence over the drawing, eventually getting to a point where I will begin to shoe horn drawings into whatever context I've laid out in my meandering scribings.. I suppose it's a case, for the moment any way, of seeing how things evolve but this maybe something I refer back to should I find this beginning to happen.