I never thought I would come round to using the stylus except to rekindle my childhood calligraphy skills. So I acquired a phone with a stylus and began using the stylus to simulate the movements and oddities of my writing hand so as to give the writing a visual originality as well as authentic immediacy. Or the fly next to it on a wall at home that reminded me of Erik Satie’s delightful piece for the piano, Gymnopédies, which means ‘dance’. For instance, the one here which I captioned Still Music, Still Coffee In what I saw as a seamless transmutation between different forms of subjective expression, I wanted to travel through free association between a photo-worthy moment, an aphorism engendered by it, a piece of music anticipating it, a painting recalling it, and a book or a character or a scene from a film comparable with it – all of this in any internally organic order. I had been looking for a medium and device that would allow me to create assemblages of contingent expressions in multiple media simultaneously. There was clearly a technological catalysis at work. This stage precedes the one of foreseeing and framing a potential picture on the preview pane of my digital phone. It was going to be a matter of time before I began to “read” my surroundings for the picture-to-be- through my own eyes and those of viewers whose viewing I had come to know. Perhaps, unconsciously, I came to draw and paint the same way that I had recently come to “read” pictures. I do know how I learned to “tell” with pictures.
In what is otherwise a random instance, the critical reader or artist might glimpse the generic story of the human arrival in art for the sake of expression.
She is sharing it in a bid to invite readers to re-trace the processes that mediate one’s desire to express oneself in artistic ways. This is the developing story of a forty-something doodler who has in all of five months come from never having drawn a picture in her adult life to doing little else in all the time she can spare. Disobedient Pictures: A Doodler’s Journey and the Allegory of Art
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