the final drawing for Perry Kulper's
Drawn Forth was digital/manual: crossings.
the project was a combination between digital work and manual work. not so much to represent something specific or have a clear-set agenda, but rather to gain a new tool set and way of working.
using my own digital files i put together a section of an undergraduate project, along with a collage of multiple photos, plans, and other digital images ghosted in the background.
for the manual, i wanted to really blur the definition of what constitutes manual. thus, much of the manual was hand drawn and scanned in. the spills, also from another past project, were actual spills of paint then placed into the background. the fence-like structures were hand-drawn and scanned in. the lines of flight above the building were a little more interesting in that they confuse the definition of digital/manual. for those, the section was printed up, transferred to drawing paper with acetone, the lines of flight then drawn on top of it, then scanned, and then superimposed onto the original digital scan, acetone transfer and all.
the final manual work was done with the placing of newspaper clippings to fit into the gaps of the lines of flight. while there was no specific reason for this since i was simply exploring new techniques, multiple reads were taken from the project which, while unintentional, was quite accurate.
the readings of this were that there was a theme of water and fishing in this drawing. having not presented it that way i found that interesting for multiple reasons. one was the fact that this base drawing of the section was a fishery project in sault ste marie, michigan. perhaps that led me to the placing of the underlying pattern of hand drawn fish skin onto the section, but the unintended reads were with the lines of flight and newspaper. the lines of flight reminding people of fishing line while the newspaper clippings reminded people of wrapping fish in a paper.
interesting takes on it. while it wasnt my intent, i suppose people will see what they want to see.
i enjoyed this project. it has always been fun for me personally going from manual to digital and back and forth again. definitely something i'll be incorporating in my future works.
