Notes

Drawings, sketches, brief notes that participate while doing the work. Work as a process in constant change.
Keywords, comments, texts found in any book which are close to the spirit of the images and accompany the process.

The threads that weave this series are
The transition from simple to complex, from ethereal to denseness, from plane to volume.
The dichotomy between the material and immaterial.
The structure that creates and maintains the appearance of the form.
The incidence of light changing the whole.
The light that is both inside and out.
The sign of internal spaces.
Make the form visible. Make its shadow visible.
The line and its shadow.

Moving sketches.

The shape arises from the plane surface.
The emptiness contains all. Every possibility is conceived.
These are papers.
I take one. I draw by cutting the pieces and joining them, I build.

Forms that move through changes. Constant transformation. Perpetual motion. Energy that is directed. Passage from one state to another. Traces left by the form.

Something catches my eye. In the quietness something moves.
I press the shutter of the camera again and again.
Fragment of space. Fragment of time.

Register and sequence.
The images are already on my desk, spread out. Pictures of caught moments. The copies place themselves in silence, magically. Some remain, others leave.

Metamorphosis
Hand and pencil.
On the paper the hand slips, leaving its carbon footprint, inventing another space.
The white paper is a fresh ground. Set an instant of motion.
And then, space and colour.
Like in a dialogue, the forms take place and play. They retain the spirit of an instant of time in its memories

Instant drawing.

Games. Colours. First steps. I gaze from here. Surprise. His amazement. My astonishment. Beginning. Discovery. I begin to discover. With the heart. Emotion. Try out. Repeat. Fall down. Try again. I see his attempts. His repeating. In the game, unworried, the discovery. Colours. Itinerary. Roll. Objects scattered here and there. Movement. Displacing in space.

Morning in a cafe and only a diary in my bag.

PRECIPITATE (prĭ-sĭp'ĭ-tāt')
v. pre•cip•i•tat•ed, pre•cip•i•tat•ing, pre•cip•i•tates

v. tr.
1. To throw from or as if from a great height; hurl downward.
2. To cause to happen, especially suddenly or prematurely. See Synonyms at speed.
3. To hasten the coming of (an unwanted event)
4. To force (into a condition or state of affairs)
5. Meteorology_ To cause (water vapor) to condense and fall from the air as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
6. Chemistry_ To cause (a solid substance) to be separated from a solution.

adj. (-tĭt)
1. Moving rapidly and heedlessly; speeding headlong.
2. Acting with or marked by excessive haste and lack of due deliberation.
3. Occurring suddenly or unexpectedly.

[Latin praecipitāre, praecipitāt-, to throw headlong, from praeceps, praecipit-, headlong : prae-, pre- + caput, capit-, head; seekaput- in Indo-European roots.]
pre•cip'i•tate•ly (-tĭt-lē) adv., pre•cip'i•tate•ness n.,pre•cip'i•ta'tive adj., pre•cip

Drawing notebook's page.

This text belongs to "Tropic of Capricorn" by Henry Miller