week 38: deep time
If you free yourself from the conventional reaction to a quantity like a million years, you free yourself a bit from the boundaries of human time. And then in a way you do not live at all, but in another way you live forever.
– from The Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
Returning to drawing and painting this week. As always, I am searching to capture something that feels elusive…though maybe there is a lesson in this quote about how we perceive time. I feel like my discovery is taking forever, but from another point of view, maybe it is happening quicker than I could ever know.
sketchbook drawings of The Grand Staircase
The Grand Staircase, pencil on folded paper, ~ 9 x 14 inches
Deep Time, gouache on paper, 11 x 15 inches
Map of the World (B Fuller), ink & pencil on paper, 10 x 10 inches