A Blast from the Past

Here's a drawing I created over ten years ago. Exploring the foreground/background shift of black on white and making a fun drawing with a nod to Jim Dine's tool drawings from the 1970s. This is one where I stopped before the image became too muddled; ie. the floating, non-descript space is suggestive, not completely illustrative, the unfinished quality in the flashlight is quite powerful, and that light is what makes the drawing (the pictorial space) come alive. 

It's also a sign of a younger me and is not a resolution I'd work towards today. Particularly, the black marks along side the rectangles are not what I would do now. They do not describe any form, but rather are a floating cloud of black ... they resemble ink stains ... and become a distraction because we look at them expecting a positive form. Those marks are confusing and distract people from 'getting' the image right away. 

Anyway, the drawing is fun and has much of my youthful charm in it. As usual, hindsight is always better.