Voice

As mentioned, one of our prompts was to translate words that resonated from our own writing into a visual piece.  Here is one result:

I won't include the word that triggered this page because after looking at it on my wall for nearly a month, the visual has taken on a different role in my vocabulary.  This ink drawing started, or was symptom of, a habitual repetitive mark, usually vertical, that recurred in other sketches for this class.  

By "habitual," I don't mean inadvertent, just not calculated.  The first month or so of exercises gave me a nice way to work: without editing before I had even begun.

                                               

The process of starting with language and then departing from it is important to me.  Usually my thoughts are more clearly articulated when I'm working in studio than when I'm speaking aloud.  Language should not be my final medium.  I had no say in the making of its connotations and structures.