Pen on paper, 2026
My oldest daughter goes to sleep on her own these days. She listens to stories and occasionally calls me into her room to ask questions such as: why do we wear pyjamas; are foxes real; what is a fajita? I decided to use the time to do some drawing. Each night I fill a sheet of paper using some old pens that are running out of ink. I seem to have settled on a kind of technically insufficient op-art. The method is dependent on how easy it is to return to it after I’ve gone in to answer one of my daughter’s questions, so each drawing features a single kind of mark and an informal system that develops as I draw. By the time she’s asleep, I’ve made a drawing.
