Stillness expanded slowly
indulging patience perseverance
pulled down in time
lines drawn slow
and pencil as evidence of a hand
alighting on paper
remembered
as light as a memory of a time
time repeated
speaking in reflections
concentrated sharpness of shame and resistance
narrowed by the shadows of ordinary beauty
drawing as magic warding against careless judgements and harsh moralities
looking as listening
paper as thinking
light as remembering
as light as
marking time.
sinking
Drawing from life is a process of looking,
looking at something that is real
and in front of you,
looking at it so intensely,
with such insistence
that the idea of the object evaporates
and the scene becomes fragmented,
the parts separate and abstract,
patterns are found.
One moves from certainty
to not-knowing,
through doubt and then
in turn trusting, which leads
to certainty again when
the image is transcribed
to the page.
graphite on paper
spoken word
2020
︎ Rafael Roncato
spoken word
2020
︎ Rafael Roncato
