Just Drawing

There is nothing more meditative to me than drawing a still life. I gave  a drawing lesson yesterday to a private student. After the student left, I spent hours absorbed in the mapping, erasure, smudges, accentuations and exploration of form and space.  This act of close looking is a kind of cartography that takes me from the real, into the interior space of memory where I begin my next conceptual project. Happy New Year beautiful people. My goal, I hate resolutions, is to keep making marks on paper.