The magnified glass of liberation: A review of fictional drawings. Issue 1 (1st April 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: O'Donnell, Lucy
• Is Part Of: Drawing. Volume 3:Issue 1(2017)
• Page Start: 47
• Page End: 62
• Publication Date: 2018-04-01
• Subjects: Drawing -- Periodicals; 741.05
• DOI: 10.1386/drtp.3.1.47_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2057-0392

Abstract

The article uses an inactive creative period to consider drawing as a type of fiction. The writing style adheres to academic conventions; however, the author's autobiographical experiences and wonderings are critical in exploring drawings fictions. It revisits making and thinking to explore drawing and philosophizing as speculative commutable passages of exploration and inquiry. The article chronicles the preparation of fictional drawings for a 'Fictional museum of drawing' created by Phil Sawdon. This article reworks Sawdon's site of fictional drawing, advocating drawings fictions as twofold, as rooted in foresight where predisposed thinking is navigated and anticipation reigns. The other recognition of fiction focuses upon the material illusions of thought. It plays on the autobiographical disposition of drawing/writing redrafting spatial origination of words to become diverse and contradictory graphics of language that displace the blank page. The fictions of the drawings/writings reviewed in the paper reappraise syntactical devices and worded conventions, where the works reorganize conventions from both drawing and writing using illusion and paradox to unsteady their material.