In gathering material for Chasworld.com I find some of my own work doesn't fit into any particular category except an ubiquitous one that I could call "Drawing". But what is a drawing? What medium is drawing? Although I have lots of pencil and ink drawings of figure studies or studies for paintings and so forth that fit a more classical definition of drawing, I did not include any of these-I'll save them for a future show all their own.

    Paul Klee- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Klee  - made a few interesting comments about drawings. He said that a line is a dot going for a walk, and also that a drawing is taking a line for a walk. I like those ideas. I also like the simplicity of making a drawing, with a pencil, a pen(my favorite), a little pigment on a brush, or whatever is at hand. I began assembling the show back in October, with those drawings that were like taking a line for a walk, like the drawing above. I weeded out all of the objective, subject based drawings except for these two of conch shells below. Then I took a turn toward a more abstract vein with Firebird, also shown below. This was drawn at the performance of Stravinsky's Firebird by the Rochester City Ballet- www.rochestercityballet.org  -in 2009. I drew it during the scene where Prince Ivan is watching the Firebird dance before he chases and catches it.