The space of a drawing can expand by allowing the lines to stretch and breathe. It is the foundation of constructing knowledge that can be transformed and evolve over time.
The instrument used for tracing is a fix pencil. Depending on the pressure exerted by the hand on the surface of the paper, different types of leads are tested (4H, 2H, F). An attempt is made to discover the thickness of each line. It is recommended to constantly sharpen the lead, in order to draw by cutting. The pencil acts like a knife. Lines act like cuts.
It is necessary to understand the value of each line that crosses the paper. Each stroke changes over time. It is recommended to rotate the pencil while drawing a line stroke to naturally sharpen the lead tip. The line may be more or less intense. Each personality produces a unique line. We do not want a space within the line. One feels the level of precision needed to construct the geometry and tries to adjust the thickness of the line. The material line only makes sense if it reveals a thought. You cannot draw without thinking. Lines without thought are absent. At the same time, one must stop thinking.
The paper serves as a training ground, a battleground. Delimit the territory in order to generate intensity. It organizes the space of the paper and ensures that all future fragments relate within this territory. The empty space that remains is important.
Everything is built simultaneously, not started, and finished, but everything is open. Only with lines do we perform the following actions: draw, sharpen, adjust, erase. And our mind selects, compares, surprises.
One feels the ability to make the absent appear. The paper as physical territory, as a place of construction. It is built, not represented; we need to feel in each stroke the concentration and effort of a thought. The drawing tells us how we have to place the pencil on the paper. Everything drawn on the paper is measured. The line in its construction helps to focus, to forget one’s body. We enter the drawing and are transported to another world.
Drawing allows us to generate a surface that transforms continuously, fragile and ambiguous, with its own laws. Lines, annotations, measurements accumulate, thus revealing unsuspected, dense, tense spaces. We don’t erase, we accumulate; we show everything. One learns the necessity of precision for accumulating, for measuring, for observing. It is not about defining the edges, nor filling them; rather, lines intertwine, materials interweave. The edges are not present. At that moment, one can be both inside and outside simultaneously.
The sheet transforms and reveals its third dimension in a slow, almost invisible process. It takes time to draw with precision, to layer, to iterate. Our body and mind adapt to the temporality of the line. Each line is drawn by connecting two points. Each point is constructed by the intersection of two lines. Each line is unique, with a tension different from the others. All lines are
