Same gloves as before (previous post), same old pot. But what a different feeling!
While Linné’s drawing holds us with its tense composition, Gaby’s drawing grabs us emotionally. She places the pot in the middle of the page and the gloves on left and right, giving us a rational anchor in symmetry. Nice, thank you. But the drawing quality itself does not make nice. Her markmaking is frenzied. We can recognize the two objects on either side as gloves, but they might also be agitated organism. It’s a compelling double-take, given that the glove is an analog of the hand.
Somehow she managed to make the whole thing look monumental (and I can’t quite analyze that effect), making the gloves surreal and spooky. Notice the urgency of the deep black scribbles on either side of the pot/tower. There’s something ominous about that background. (Maybe that’s where the illusion of monumentality comes from).
The whole page pulsates. I keep looking at this page, drawn into its life.
The drawing, about 12” x 14”, was done in Aquarellable Pencil on gloss paper.
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artamaze by Katherine Hilden 
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