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Katrinka Wilson This essay concerns the movements made in drawing. It describes research into the relationship between the somatic and creativity in drawing, and discusses how those ideas relate to the interaction between movements and perception in my current work, which involves making detailed drawings of nests using magnifying glasses to mediate between the drawing, the drawing object, the drawing act and the viewer. This work is also a response to a change in my own visual field (through acquired visual impairment) and because the practice is informing the theory, which here is still tentative, I have structured the paper to reflect this dialogical interaction, juxtaposing the theoretical discourse with a drawing narrative (identified in grey in the footnotes below). I first looked at the role of drawing movements during my doctoral research (Wilson, 2005). I considered that the movements we make whilst drawing formulate or chart the spatial relations of the image we are planning to draw before we commit to draw it, and I thought that these movements are mimetic and amount to a pre-drawing; a discrete rehearsal and action sequence with purposes critical to the overall drawing process. I found that the drawing act, if considered in a theatre paradigm, is a conduit for moving ‘being’ into ‘becoming’ (Wilson, 2005: 161). Download Katrinka Wilson's complete article here
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