Drawings

I love to draw. From my distant artistic past, I dig out my old sketchbooks and see how differently—and yet how familiarly—I perceived the world around me.

I try to sketch daily. Most of the time, I write down my thoughts and ideas in words first and then create an image. In that sense, I am a language model that creates images based on my own verbal descriptions. Dreams fall into the same category: I write them down, and then I can draw them.

I love drawing with a regular pencil. I adore Lyra pencils and Prismacolors because of their softness. For the same reason, I really love soft pastels, particularly Sennelier brand because of the vibrancy and quality —and anything that can be smeared. But I also love working with ink.

Below are some of my sketchbooks, and some of the drawings that have transformed into the hanko blocks.