Spent the evening scanning a book I thought I had lost. I found it just two days ago, hidden behind other books, in a corner of one of the shelves. It might be from 2000, though I am not quite sure.
The book contains linear drawings only. Only the odd pages were used. The drawings start out as observations and then turn into somehow abstract depictions of objects and ideas, you'll see. There are one hundred and ten individual drawings in this book. I will probably post them in series of three per day, (all throughout March.) They were not intended as triptychs, but it might be interesting to see some undercurrent, some connection between the little pieces.
Just to get going, and because the first pages of any book are usually slow, I will post five drawings today. (Plus cover=6)
The story starts in Blockheads on 2nd avenue and I think 33rd street? I might have been outside and listened to a conversation at one of the tables. "You can't make a circle without first making the ends meet", you can not think about changing the world, with an empty stomach?, you can not tell the world where to go, before first understanding a bit of love?, you can not claim to know anything without first listening?...
The other drawings are clearly impressions from around the Murray Hill area in Manhattan. There is the crown of the Chrysler building, lit at night.. some other buildings around Grand Central Terminal. The last drawing might be what I saw through a Manhattan window. Certain layouts are very universal to apartments in New York. The roomsare often very small and there might be only one way to put in the sofa sometimes, its feet are all supposed to touch the ground. My first space in New York faced the windows of other apartments. The furniture and its layout in three of them was incredibly similar, the habits of the tenants were quite similar as well. They seemed to like the same television shows and even their friends would often come to visit at the same time. They certainly thought of themselves as very individualistic, but from my point of view, there were more similarities than differences.