Work in Progress | Vinyl Moon Project

Beginnings | Every drawing starts out like this. A skeleton and shell with small glimpses of what it’ll eventually be. My heads knows it all and my hands move with ease in these early stages where everything is simple layers of line and transparencies. 

That’s what’s always resonated the most about drawing, developing that skill of observation means you have the ability to see straight through things, to know how they’re structured and function in ways most people will never understand. It’s attention to detail, to space and to the interactions between things. It’s the ability to genuinely understand and translate how things operate at their core with your eye and being able to move your hand accordingly. 

Yet it’s also more than just objectively  translation of what you see, because after a while you realize that’s pretty easy. It’s really about paying attention to how you interact with those observations, how your hand moves in response, the struggle in the process and the way all of the things in your life at that moment start to come out in bits and pieces onto the paper. It’s leaving behind all the racing thoughts, heartache and worries on the page, letting them go in a curve or the rhythmic repetition of lines.

What may just look like lines on paper is a beautiful dance between seeing and feeling. These lines are simple, yet weighted with the complexity of purpose and action. Looking and consuming are one thing, but interacting with passion and purpose are another...that tension and fluidity between the two is where the love of the magic in the process has always been for me. Once you realize that one simply can’t exist without the other you’ll see it’s all just one big balancing act...and if you have a little faith, it’ll get you exactly where you were always meant to end up.