a series of 12 drawings based on associative thinking+memory. Everyday actions such eating and drinking carry sensations of taste and smell that can trigger memories to unfold - can this affect us in how we draw? The project was realised by drawing during or after eating and drinking. The approach was to keep things minimal but also intimate: tiny hand movements making me remember my mother doing embroidery, drawing small lines with a ballpoint pen like the one I used since childhood, just one colour. Then lines joining each other and creating textures, shapes and ghostly figures, while drawing only inside small squares of the same size and in the centre of the paper. At the same time, each drawing growing through listening to the sound of the pen on the paper, and the sounds of the triggered memories… the result? deeper focus, deeper experience in connecting taste, smell, sounds and memories with the act of drawing where everything becomes an interplay of lines and textures. And, although contained inside a small square that floats on the page, the composition becomes settled like a small window into new spaces, situations and possibilities.

 

The project was first presented in the group exhibition ‘Drawing as an Expanded Research Method’ that was organised by Royal College of Art in June 2024 at the Media Works, White City Place.

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