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Sketchbook drawings by Mark
Burrier
You have every right to be suspicious. Sketchbook collections
are the
dirty
secret of the art world and the safety net of artists. Why produce
new,
meaningful work when I have a whole book of it here?
I used to only keep sketchbooks to write notes and phrases in
so that I
wouldn't forget them later. It was never a place to practice or
experiment
with new techniques. My friend Jeff keeps a vigilant sketchbook
and has
for
years. Whenever I read them, I find so much depth and layers of
thought.
This is what a sketchbook should be. Pure thought. From brain
to paper.
This work was taken from two books completed from spring through
the end of summer 2005. What I like about these pages
is that I made them without the intention of anyone ever
seeing them. The few chosen I feel were successful in
capturing something. That something I'm not sure of exactly.
I present them to you in the hope that you find other
people's thought processes as interesting as I do.
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