Signals – Publication
In the spring of 2020, Drawing Tube launched “Signals” in collaboration with artists working in different environments all over the world. It was interested in exploring what artists were thinking during the pandemic. Artists were encouraged to contribute small visual and textual fragments from their daily life that materialized from…
Signals#30 Hiraku Suzuki
As the pandemic broke out about a year and a half ago, we started this project called ‘Signals’. Since then, things may have either changed or remained the same. With regard to the changes in human society, the world doesn’t seem to have changed that much. As for myself, I…
Signals#29 Noriko Ambe
After becoming aware of the viewpoint of an “empty self,” in 1999, I began the line-works series by cutting or drawing. The action is simple, and the subtle natural distortions convey the nuances of human emotion, habits, or biorhythm. Because of this, I made sure that all works are made…
Signals#28 Nicole Lenzi
My art questions what a drawing is. I have been blogging about expanded drawing practices for years. After so many posts, I began to see drawings emerge all around me. Shadows were of particular interest. I began to document these temporal drawings on my iPhone, eventually calling them Sight Drawings. It felt important that…
Signals#27 Giulia Cacciuttolo
The last fourteen months and the consequent, almost constant reclusion in either my house or my studio, forced me and gave me the time to notice, even more than before, the mundane. Small domestic details that would usually go unnoticed caught my attention: time and light, new companions of mine, drew ungraspable…
Signals#26 Monika Grzymala
Last year my world has shrunken due to the global pandemic. Living in lockdown and not being able to travel for my work in other parts of the world an abrupt break and change of speed. Projects were postponed and cancelled. I had many quiet days in the studio. Everything…
Signals#25 Joey Chin
As a writer and artist curious about communications, I have always saw what I cannot read or write as signs, or in the form of drawing, with its lines, curves, order and outlines. I feel this way about learning Greek as an adult-language learner, for instance. With the humdrum and…
Signals#24 Jana Cordenier
Observing nature is not only about seeing your surroundings but also about experiencing them, or being immersed in them. You feel the wind and the sun, smell the rosemary and thyme, hear the cicadas, you can touch the leaves and flowers. Some leaves appear very close, others at a distance.…
Signals#23 Rodrigo Garcia Dutra
I’ve been wondering about how to access freedom in confinement. What I could experience is virtual freedom. A constant digitalization of whatever interaction we had with the outside world, or even the outside us. I wanted to break free from this. Recently, Rio de Janeiro beaches were put in restriction…
