Title: Night

Media: Colored pencil on Canson's Black

Size: 19" x 25" (26" x 32" framed)

Framing: framed with mat

Price or Current disposition: $400

Date: 1989

Comments: Most of the images in the irregular shape series are very abstract plays of form. I will often just start out drawing a line across a page and try to maximize the variety of length of line segment, direction of line, and degree of curvature. When the line closes to become a shape, and then a series of shapes, similar issues of abstraction apply playing with size, thickness, spacing, etc. Occasionally I will look at the finished shapes and see something in it which I will then bring out. In this case I saw what looked like the silhouette of a cat in the middle of the drawing so I then added an eye. That one little feature leads the mind from the realm of pure abstraction into a kind of dreamscape of the imagination.