Presented below are a series of blind contour drawings, drawn by myself. I organised this experiment as a workshop test through, which I will be putting forward to the university studio and my peers, as well as making an online event for members of this blog and other social media platforms. I hope to collate and catalogue as many drawings as I can in order to gather an understanding on how our relationship with perspective distorts and adapts without an important variable, such as our sight. Having tested the workshop, using myself as the test subject; I have established a new awareness to drawing, through the sense of touch and utilising my hands as an observational tool to use as I draw blindfolded.
Just as I started the test run I found that my perspective was awfully askew, I thought that I was drawing quite large, when in reality I was drawing in minuscule. I found the nervous mark makings and peculiar proportions to be quite intriguing in their own right, narrating a mildly abstract format. The workshop entails a bag being filled with objects selected from a peer, and the artist/participator being blindfolded. The artist or spectator not knowing what is in the bag, is then to select an object to draw without sight. I have began to compare objects that I do not recognise by touch, to those that I know from memory, and the differences within the drawings. I have found with items I recognise I am not so eager to touch every crevice, whereas items I am unfamiliar with, I want to feel every surface of in order to replicate it both effectively and efficiently. I will be continuing to draw without sight to further my body of work, and perhaps develop some images into different formats of print or paint, whatever medium or technique I feel suites the image. Eventually I hope by collating my own, peers and online spectators drawings, that I may then propose and pitch an idea to Ken Divine, the curator and owner of ‘The Frederik Street Gallery.’Upon pitching my idea, I hope to organise a blind drawing workshop open to the public. If this were to work out, I would be continuing to grow my network and inhabit the opportunity to embark on organising and conducting a concatenation of workshops which may integrate with works of my own.
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