“Ours Not Seen” : Pen & Ink Drawing Series (Part 4)steemCreated with Sketch.

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Ego [noun] the part of the mind that mediates between the conscious and the unconscious and is responsible for reality testing and a sense of personal identity.

Here is a time lapse (below) of Michael and the four of us at work together on an earlier "Id" drawing. In this "Ego" drawing series, we distilled new ideas and pursued our blank-pages individually, rather than all of us together on the same paper. As we continued this back-and-forth artistic exercise we uncovered new ideas, textures, themes and patterns to play with on paper. (For more on our collaborative drawings, click here!)

Drawing the Ego : A Single Artist - One Paper

The “Ego” is the continuation of our “Id” drawing series. Each of the four hands from the previous collaborative drawing project was given it’s own canvas to experiment within, allowing the individual to create the whole composition and explore their own ideas based on the previous collaborative drawings.

All four of us aimed uncover visual themes which were embedded in the past “Id” drawings. As a result, we completed four distinct Ego drawings that would later become a resource in discovering a new context, a new form to inhabit and an individual presence on paper.

In this drawing, Michael developed an intricate style of texture. Using just a pen, he created different scales of a family of forms that appear to be almost mechanically drawn. His repetitive motions become a meditation of texture that reveal different thresholds of ideas as you move about the drawing.

Here is “Ours Not Seen” below:

“Ours Not Seen” is a 70cm x 70cm hand drawing made with pen and ink.

The entire composition is visible above, here are a couple zoomed in detail images to give you a better sense of Michael’s pen-work...

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wow, diggin this and also just checked out a bunch of previous posts. phenomenal stuff and loving the collaborative concept in a medium that certainly leans towards more solo work. I play music and always find that the interaction with other musicians creates something that is so much larger than just the sum of the parts. Kudos to you, upvoted and followed and looking forward to more...

Thanks for your supportive comment @anarchrysalis ! It's interesting that you bring up music. We've always felt that music and art have a lot of learn from one another... in terms of a process of making and a performance as a finale. Art today is definitely too secluded. Steemit is so exciting for us because it allows us to explore these issues of process and performance socially with you all! Anyway, thanks for the support! Stay tuned for a whole lot more!

Insanely great!

Thank you fairytalelife! Hope all is going well at Steemfest!

Nice art. Thank you for upvoting my post. Upvoted. Following.

Thank you so much! Likewise :)

You are welcome.