Some of the methodological thoughts I made during the making of the drawing follow:
"The act of drawing is slow, so it enables careful and prolonged thinking on a topic. The forming of lines, marks etc. to make an image helps to refine initial ideas into theories and rationales.
The idea for the drawing came about by thinking of the general aims and themes of the project, then to think about I might visualise this just from my surface thoughts. At this point I'm thinking about what I can theorise upon without reading first. The drawing then helps me to bring that onto a paper surface, to evidence it for others to see. This is a good process for mobilising fairly subconscious ideas and thoughts into action. The act of making the drawing guides me into further researching in a particular aspect of the themes that I want to know more about."
Linda I'm having another look at this, and noticing that a lot of the people seem to be female - is that deliberate? Or is it that I'm seeing them as female? As I look again, I notice the only person who appears 'male' and is clear of anyone else's face is on the right (green t-shirt). All the others seem to be squeezed in, obscured and tucked behind the women/girls (as I'm seeing them...) ?
ReplyDeleteI think that you are probably seeing them as female as I didn't consciously draw them that way, but more like androgynous children figures. We both then colored them over a period of three weeks as we also did other drawings in the book.
ReplyDeleteThe thing about doing this drawing was the way it enabled us to discuss our thinking about the issue, so for me both of us used drawing to realize our thoughts - this is the valuable thing to discuss here as it helps to support the use of drawing as a researching methodology.