Pages from Sketchbooks

Drawing  |  Pencil on paper

I don’t carry a sketchbook everywhere. Any paper will do. I draw when I feel the need or when I simply want to. And then, for my subjects, usually, I choose what is in front of me — whatever catches my eye. A view, an object, an animal, a plant. I draw other people, and sometimes I draw myself — my feelings. Sketches below come from different places and years, but they share the same impulse — the need — to draw. A very strong need. Drawing does something to me that I’m not really sure how to explain. It lets me get through. It calms my nerves. It rebalances me. Gives me a breath. And also, what’s quite funny but constant: it makes me feel like a printer — like if I print whatever gets to my eye, onto paper, simply because it’s my essence to print it.