Elements - Nature Series
-Turps wash, pastel and chinagraph on brown craft paper
Landscape I
1992
Turps wash, pastel and chinagraph on brown craft paper 140cm x 115cm
Landscape II
1992
Turps wash, pastel and chinagraph on brown craft paper 140cm x 115cm
Landscape III
1992
Turps wash, pastel and chinagraph on brown craft paper 140cm x 115cm
Landscape IV
1992
Turps wash, pastel and chinagraph on brown craft paper 140cm x 115cm-
Thoughts on the drawings
These drawings are the formation of an idea for collating and representing the power of nature (as seen through the eyes of the Naturacuramonitoris).
Everything around us has come from nature. I found it curious to note: There are no straight lines in nature. Yet modern society, as we know it, virtually depends on them for its existence; for shelter, written language, travel, and more. However, when you look a bit closer you find there is really no such thing as a straight line. Every ‘straight’ line is only straight, relative to the straight edge that made it. Even a finely machined piece of hardened steel, under a microscope, would have bumps and lumps everywhere, especially if you could see its molecular structure.
As befitting with the purpose of the Creature, these drawings are about looking at nature. Following the argument, there are no straight lines in nature, the accepted format of creating a landscape around a ‘straight’ horizon line on a hard edged support has been replaced by a circular design on paper with randomly torn edges.
The drawings combine other ideas to represent this idea visually on a journey into the newly formed world of the Naturacuramonitoris.
Catherine M Bourn
12th Nov 1992.