Project Statement


train: wheels traveling on parallel tracks enabled by intersecting linear elements

Create 10 drawings exhibiting a unified voice by exploring the Golden Ratio as found within a locomotive drivetrain. The graphite on paper works will be executed in the coming months based on photographs of a decapod steam engine taken by the artist in 2009 at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Salisbury.

The compositions will use rotation within the confines of strict frontal views, and employ only shadow and detailed material rendering to develop a sense of depth. The conversation between subject and composition will draw on the “idea” of train and the inverse notion of what might be seen if the train moved around the wheel.

All 10 pieces will be the same size, each containing some part of a wheel in order to ground the viewer within the abstraction, much the same as the role the wheels play as they ride the rails.

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Thursday, March 8, 2012

Drawing 2: Where's the Beef?

Hi Folks

I wanted to post a brief update to let followers and visitors know I'm still around and the drawing is still on the table.... with a drop cloth over it. After several years in our home we decided it was time to paint this spring, so I've been making marks in a bit more of a macro fashion all over the walls with a 2.5" brush and an 8" roller. Mind you I'm still paying attention to detail around the edges - it's just not quite the same attention as when I sit down to draw.

I'm hoping to complete the painting project in a week or two and then return to pick up my pencils again.

Until then Cheers!

Jacob
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