Leporello — Ink Drawings, 2002
This small leporello, made in 2002, brings together a sequence of spontaneous drawings in ink, sometimes touched with water. Its intimate format—16 × 11 cm—encouraged a direct way of working: observing something, responding to it, and moving on without attempting to transform every drawing into a finished work.
The subjects move freely between flowers and plants, the human face, self-portrait and fragments of landscape. Their treatment changes just as freely. A single form may occupy an otherwise empty page, while another drawing develops through an accumulation of rapid, repeated lines until the subject almost disappears into the density of the marks.
Water introduces another condition. When it touches the ink, the line loses its precision and becomes wash, shadow or atmosphere. At times the image is constructed through drawing; at others it seems to emerge from a stain. Control and accident therefore remain in constant exchange.
Seen as a sequence, the leporello is less a collection of separate drawings than a record of looking. Its rhythm moves between emptiness and density, observation and memory, the recognizable and the almost abstract. The small book becomes a space in which an image can be caught quickly, allowed to change, and sometimes left deliberately unresolved.
Ink on paper, sometimes diluted with water · Leporello · 16 × 11 x 2.5 cm · 2002
Leporello, 2002
Ink and water on 360 g/m² paper, Thai silk cover
16 × 11 x 2.5 cm (closed)