On Drawings and Drawers An Exploration

Abstract

You might think that this is an essay examining the contents of a bed-side cabinet. But it is actually an accumulation of thoughts exploring the action and outcome of drawings, and the ways in which the act, the process, and the results both reflect and affect the person drawing: as a method of uncovering or revealing; as movement like unravelling; as open-ended cognition or the processing of thoughts; as adventure; as science; and as art. The essay concludes by briefly examining the ways in which technology has sealed the demise of a technique and process, transforming it to be at the whim of algorithms for Part 2.