Drawing

After feeling more settled with my first layer of my current BOW, I felt it was time to move on. There's no need to linger on something for too long otherwise things can get complecated. I made my first split of the pages to gain back a little bit of control, but decided to experiment by handing some control to someone else.

After splitting all the pages in half, I wanted to remove my own bias of rehanging them on the wall as I transition into the next layer. I shuffled all the halves and passed them on to someone outside of my art practice and asked them to hang them up on the wall. My only prompt for them was to not worry if the pages were right-side up or upside down, and to just place them in whatever order they felt inclined to. I also decided to leave my studio as I didn't want to feel like I had any influence over what they decided to do.

Doing this removed my own bias from what I know the original image to be, but also mimics the conventions of psychological splitting within my own neurodivergence.

The outcome of this little experiment formed new shapes and connections within the drawing that was unbiased to myself. It made me wonder what they saw as they were placing the halves on the wall.