studio notes III

Nolan Oswald Dennis
studio notes III, 2021
ink, pencil, velum on paper
Work: 40.1 x 31.2 cm

Four diagrams attempting, in their own way, to simplify the complexity of a difficult world made more difficult by our desire to simplify it. A paradoxical impulse, to unburden ourselves of the weight of being in the world and simultaneously to burden the world with the weight of our being in it, if not of it. This paradoxical push to be a part of this world and to pull apart from it, to pull the world apart in order to partake of it, to take part in that which takes so much of us. For us, hesitancy and ambivalence is a condition of transformation.