The ideas for Drawing Performed date back to my work in graduate school more than forty years when I first started thinking about inverting the expressive aspect of drawing into conceptually and physically driven mark-making. I had always loved the physicality of drawing, being most at home when my arms and hands were flying around the page. The initial drawings had specified movements with titles such as “Two–step Back and Forth Right Arm Swing.” It wasn’t too big a jump to extend these ideas about drawing into actual performances that would meld together the acts of moving and mark-making, a hybrid form that was neither pure dance nor pure drawing. In the most recent work it seemed only natural to add music to the mix.
Descending Arcs, 1976
Corner Jump, 1976
Two Circles with Moving Centers, 1976
