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The Tonal Gallery
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tonal gallery presents my drawing from 1995 through 2001. They've
been grouped according to type of content.
In the research section there's a tab called "on
the shoulders of giants" where I write about research
being a matter of observation. Artistic
expression too, involves a measure of observation. The type
of drawing that I do is about observation and attention to detail.
I suppose I consider myself more of a draftsman as opposed
to an "artist"... although this may be less true in
relation to my pastels, which give me the space to be more expressive
with my work.
I generally use a pacer (either 0.5mm or 0.7mm), even on the
larger drawings, and attention to detail is probably my outstanding
skill. Not so surprisingly, although it took me until
recently to put the two together, this meticulous attention
to detail is present in much of what I do as a person, as a
researcher, as an artist, ... even as a fire-fighter. One
of the most laborious jobs on the fire-ground is clean-up (called
"black-out") after a fire has gone through. Clean-up
involves hours of meticulous searching through the burnt ground
for smoldering snags, roots, trunks and the like, and often
demands dumping hundreds of litres of water onto potential flare-up
hot-spots. All white and grey ash on the ground must be
wet with a fine mist of water till it turns black (hence why
it's called black-out). I love this part of fire-fighting....
I put the hose over my right shoulder and hold the nuzzle just
below my chest, point it down at the ground and make a gentle
side to side sway of the ash-ground in front of me as I walk
through the bush. Of course, black-out is rarely a fire-fighter's
favourite pass-time, and I digress ~ not unusual for me really.
After all, for me.... life; meaning; living; learning;
. . . understanding; these are all just about the various contexts
in which I find myself, and the *connections* I am able to make
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