It’s quite startling to see this drawing in the studio/class room where it was produced because at the same time you can also see the pile of cloth and pottery that it was produced from. Before he starts to draw the artist, Linné Dosé, selects a portion of the still life. What that means is that he sees a coherent unit and deletes everything else from his vision. This is a skill he has developed by himself and to great effect.
The effect is that an object appears on the drawing paper, very convincing and solid but without any spatial reference. The object elicits a double take.
We read the drapery as cloth (soft) and at the same time as a column (solid). The pot appears to be heavy and three dimensional and at the same time we can see it’s an incomplete drawing. It’s a play on perception.
Drawing by Linné Dosé, graphite, ~18” x 14”
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