Sketchbook: Stumbling and Ruminating
Word from: Shlomo
One day a couple years ago I taped a piece of paper to my wall and sketched this out. The trick to understanding it is that all the figures represents the same person at different moments. The two lines represent parallel possible narratives.
What was on my mind: Sometimes we stumble and pick ourselves up. Other times we give in and leave ourselves to hopelessness and helplessness. Subsequently, there's a difficulty in investigating even our own actions and explaining why we chose what we chose.
3 Comments:
At 10:27 PM, Dena said…
Shlomo and everyone,
This sketch way reminds me of that book turned perfomance piece by Kenneth Goldsmith I was telling you about, Fidget. Where he records all of his motions for one day in excrutiating detail leaving absolutely nothing out.
(http://www.chbooks.com/online/fidget/applet.html
though I had trouble loading it). You can take the book out of any cool enough library. And by cool enough I mean yu does not have it, so you can stop dreaming there.
They don't even have him in the catalog.
-d
At 11:30 PM, Shlomo said…
That IS excruciatingly detailed. Its too bad he doesnt give a context for any of his movements--It would make it more interesting, in my opinion. (Though, I guess I went in the opposite direction with my sketch, by trying to make the abstract to the philosophical, rather than grounding the movement in a specific dramatic narrative...)
At 12:30 AM, Anonymous said…
dear shlomo
i think youre dreamy! i just love your drawings, they make me feel really close to god. you are so spiritual, in a tormented way. like van gogh, with tzizit.
best,
a constant fan
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