I have been extremely busy in the last 3 weeks. I decided to make a series of drawings on rice paper.Stamp size drawings.I wanted to frame them in box frames and pin them up like specimens of butterflies/insects are pinned up for study by entomologists.I thought of a number of roughly 20 drawings.When I started to draw I realized that framing these in glass boxes would be cumbersome to transport and the glass might shatter in transit. There was also a constraint of wall space to showcase these drawingsI decided to put all of them in a hand stitched book instead.Once that was decided, there were no limitations of a certain number.I let the thoughts and ideas flow and caught them quickly onto the paper.
The drawings deal with moments.Moments that are slippery , uncomfortable and potentially dangerous.These moments can tip in any direction.There is no way to tell what might happen next.
I completed more than 80 drawings and hand stitched them carefully and laboriously in a book.The rice paper was very filmsy and delicate.I called the book "Between You and Me". It is a book of secrets but the secrets told might be fabricated and not necessarily true.
