This series of drawings was done using an axe dipped in ink.

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I'm interested in drawing as an embodied practice - the idea of being in conversation with the paper, the axe, the ink and the feeling, sound and experience in the moment of its making.

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I work to improvised music, so the drawings last for the duration of the song and are an improvisation or translation - an expression of that relationship through the body. 

 

 The forms and ‘language' of landscape come instinctively to me and develop in the balance between the marks and the spaces. 

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You can see a  Pecha Kucha talk about my axe drawing and my work here

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drawings and videos on instagram @axe_and_ink  

You can read more about how I came to be using an axe in my post 'AxeMarks'.

 

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