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Drawing through Process
I am interested in the pure aesthetic of line as an element of both color and substance, and its
potential for expressing a wide range of thought and feeling. My drawings are created
as an intuitive response to material placed within a given space: graphite on paper,
paint on substrate, objects within a room. I use color to establish relationships tonally
as materials are repetitively placed, displaced and replaced, allowing an essence of life to
reverberate within the austere confines of structural space. In this way, a tension is created
which oscillates between formalistic geometry and existential space; an allusion to human
thought and consciousness, and the passage of time.
Manifesto
I believe white to be the most inherently beautfiul color as it carries with it the
potential to simultaneously expose and negate space. I believe black to be the most innately
powerful color as it is defined by the presence of light as well as by the absence of light.
The natural inclination of the mind is to identify a problem and work it out, a process
of thinking, and re-thinking. My aesthetic is founded in formal principles and
methodologies of drawing, which I consider to be the most visual equivalent to thought.
Kate Beck,
January 2009
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