Week Fifty | Quink assemblages

Catching up on posting work I have been busying along with over recent weeks. I am increasingly playing with light in drawing assemblages whether with holes or by pinning drawings to the glass garden door and seeing how the drawing changes. These are tracing paper drawings using Quink, which is the ink of my mother’s beautiful Parker pen, one of the very few things I have of hers. It was special to her and I imagine her DNA is still on it, deteriorated and faded, like her memory I suppose, sadly. Using her pen and the ink she used in her letters she wrote about me when I was a baby feel relevant and oddly enjoyable. These marks are quick and not well considered, as they are explorations and time is of the essence. I am thinking I would like to develop the Quink drawings into larger, more developed pieces also on this beautiful, glossy tracing paper. I like the assembly of them but I may also try just layering them one on top of the last just to focus on the marks and the blue ink. I like how the grid of images below already looks like a memorial quilt. Below are also mycelium under the microscope and the parallels are clear.

Below are mycelium under the microscope taken from a google search. The visual parallels are obvious!