Drawing a Breath

12 studies

contour line drawing

collage

In my project, I did 12 different view studies of a blanket and a pillow. For my proposal, I had planned to somehow connect all 12 studies together, but I got confused with my definition of drawing a breath and my plan. I had thought that drawing a breath meant to recreate the same object but somewhere else; for example, the Xerox machine. It copied the data and just put the same data on another piece of paper. Thus, at first, I "transferred" the 12 studies to larger individual contour line drawings.

But, in the end, after it became clearer to me that drawing a breath can also represent the recreation of the objects but in another form, I combined parts from some of the 12 studies in my line contour drawing. I wanted the lines to define the shape and volume of the blanket and the pillow. Last, I also created a collage of the blanket and pillow by taking some individual contour line drawings that I did of the twelve studies and put them together. I still wanted to keep the definite shape of a blanket but with different folds.

Although my contour line drawing and collage still look like the objects but with different parts, I could have gone further and randomized the different parts so that it was another form while still using parts of the actual objects.