Id (noun) the part of the mind in which innate instinctive impulses and primary processes are manifest.
Animation of the drawing in progress...
4 Artists on 1 Paper
This drawing is our first investigation into collaborative art. Beginning with a blank sheet of paper, the drawing incorporates an equal proportion of space via four artists. Using the methodology of an architect approaching an empty plot of land, we filled in an equal area of blank space, and once complete we rotated positions. The process was repeated 6 times around, as we developed an overall composition playing off of other's unique styles and ideas. As time went on, we found ourselves adjusting our individual narratives in order to cooperate with one another's creations.
Here is our first completed "Id drawing" below:
“Id Scale IV” is a 70cm x 70cm hand drawing made with pen and ink.
As the paper space is filled in and passed along, an interplay of new thoughts and concepts become realized. The grid-structure allows for borders between your own idea and the next participant, but it also provides the ability to connect and expand on a pre-existing theme. You have the ability to mediate or ignore, expand or contract, allowing the drawing to become a dynamic commentary on collaborative development. By the final turn, the Id becomes an elastic environment, uniquely fused with a sense of textural adaptation and spatial composition.
Here's a gif of the four of us rotating seats as we complete the 4 drawings.
Eric and Mike debate a composition in progress...
With this series we aimed to explore a balance between the ambitions of an individual, and the resonances of that individual’s idea within a broader context. Our drawings are structured mechanisms of working between the individual, the collective, and environment which we inhabit - a mediation between an internalized frame of mind, and an externalized frame of context.
This is Part 1 of 4! Stay tuned for the next drawing...
