Title: drawing on memory
Medium: powdered and vine charcoal
Size: 20 x 16″
Artist: Catherine X Blank
Year: September, 2010
About the painting: The other night, I dipped my fingers in powdered charcoal and ran it over the paper. At first, it was just a lovely smear but memory began to surface in those fingers and I remembered using the same gesture on horses, running fingers and palms over their faces, feeling the line and curve, the underlying bones and muscle. With that memory, the horse began to emerge — muzzle, cheek and brow from remembered gesture, remembered communication of touch. Â The mind’s eye is not as sure or detailed as the artist’s vision, but the hand remembers.
Website (of sorts): www.catherineblank.ca
