Signals #02 Dayana Lucas
“Sings and Bleeds” Dayana Lucas 50x65cm, sumi-e paper 80gsm, dragon’s blood ink and brush photo © Dinis Santos These two drawings were made last year with “dragon’s blood”, the inner liquid of an endemic tree called “Dragoeiro” (Dracaena Draco*) of Macaronésia region (Madeira, Açores, Canarias and Cabo Verde). This inner…
Signals #01 Kazuki Nakahara
“Ernst(Serious)“ said German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the beginning of her speech on 18 March 2020. And then she told the public that we had to be considerate each other, referring to the public’s position. Minister of Culture Grütters told that “the power of art and culture is necessary.” and…
The sign of line – Ronald Noorman
It had been snowing all night long. The track of the snow grouse that had crossed the plains the day before had been erased. Why the bird had come to this place and wandered around here was not clear. Had the animal been born here and returned out of…
Day Drawing by Sohei Nishino
Having been working on the series “Diorama Map” for past 13 years and walking around the cities, I gradually realized that to be a city from one place within a long elapsed time, various elements have been passing by and with the piles of organic human’s walk, cities have been…
Drawing Performance: Abstraction from Germany and the United States
‘Drawing Performance: Abstraction from Germany and the United States’ was presented at the Gallery Inga Kondeyne, Berlin. This project is curated by USA based artist and curator James Bockelman and comprised of nine artists from Berlin and six artists from the United States. Drawing Performance traveled to three different venues…
'Expanded' by Nicole Lenzi
My interest in non-traditional drawing began in an undergraduate course called Experimental Drawing and continued through graduate school. The blog Expanded is dedicated to presenting diverse drawing practices happening around the region that I live, Baltimore/Washington D.C.; country (United States), and world. It is a framework for consideration of what…
'道' by Kazuki Nakahara
Cheers! I am currently doing a residency at a printmaking workshop in a small village near Leipzig. When I heard of the concept of “Drawing Tube”, I imagined a well-ventilated thing that I could peek into at either end or from various ends. It is the circumstance that information flows…