MY INTERPRETATION OF ‘CREATIVE DRAWING’ WORKSHOP

From a lecture delivered by ARTIST Ryan discussed in the previous blog ‘CREATIVE DRAWING’.

Beginning to thinking about using other mediums within my practice and after the task set in the lecture on week two by Ryan, I have used ink and create a child-like activity for me and my dad to participate in experimenting in a new creative studio. After the video by Amy Sillman and her discussing how we draw as a child but when we hit puberty drawing stops. I wanted to go back to what I would have done with my dad as a child if he was a part of my life and re-create it now.

Starting with an ink pad and plain A4 and using our hands to create a drawing using our fingerprints and identity to create detail. As this experiment was a child-like act it sparked the worlds ’stolen time’ witch my dad inscribed using ink and his finger.

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Figure 1,2 and 3 are photographs taken of two of the drawing, my dad's handprint and his words scribed with his finger. These Word of ‘stolen time’ made me think that time has gone and cannot be given back to us. The prints we made without hands was a child-like activity, so perhaps this act of drawing together sparked these words. This then led me to photograph my dad washing the ink away. However, the ink-stained his hand. The metaphorical link between the ink staining but becoming less visible made me think of the worlds again. Our time cannot be changed but the longer we spend together now it gets better. Much like the ink will not disappear at first but the more he washed his hands it becomes less and less visible.

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Documentary photography is the preferred medium I wanted to document the aftermath of the creative activity we did together. These images seem intimate although they are of my dad washing his hand you can see how close I stood to photograph the quiet moment after using the ink.

These images also double up as more photographs of dad and me living together.

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Figure List

Figure 1 Boothroyd , H. (2021). INK Identity04 . [painting ]. final project , Huddersfield .

Figure 2 Boothroyd , H. (2021). Stolen Timeink . [painting ]. final project , Huddersfield .

Figure 3 Boothroyd , H. (2021). INK Identity03 . [painting ]. final project , Huddersfield .

Figure 4 Figure 33 - Boothroyd , H. (2021). Hands01 . [photograph]. Experiment Final Project , Huddersfield .

Figure 5 Figure 33 - Boothroyd , H. (2021). Hands02 . [photograph]. Experiment Final Project , Huddersfield .

Figure 6Figure 33 - Boothroyd , H. (2021). Hands03 . [photograph]. Experiment Final Project , Huddersfield .

Figure 7 Figure 33 - Boothroyd , H. (2021). Hands04 . [photograph]. Experiment Final Project , Huddersfield .