Other approaches have been pursued to access all the drawings, as described below:
Web Scripts,
Videos,
Books,
Manifestos...
Drawing Walls
The traditional approach to curating drawing exhibits is to place a selection of elements on a physical or virtual wall.
We may choose as few as three drawings out of ten thousand. For example, drawings number 0092, 4700 and 9999:
(Note: All drawings have been scanned, mostly at 600 dpi.
The actual size of the drawings is in the 20x30 cm range for the first 9000 drawings
with a few exceptions.
The last 1000 drawings were made on A4-size paper or 29.7x42 cm.
Two sets of three drawings add depth:
Choosing ten drawings from 10,000 gives a little more perspective of the whole project.
The drawings might be curated by selecting one each thousand drawings, as follows:
Suites:
The possibilities are obviously endless with 10,000 drawings to choose from:
Web Scripts
The
opening
for this website utilizes a script that shows the drawings in a cinematic manner.
The appearance is that of a video,
but the script has built in multiple random processes making for a changing viewing experience.
There is randomization from selecting the drawings to the timing of each drawing
through the effects utilized for displaying each drawing (e.g. zoom out) and for transitioning between drawings.
A small version of the script randomly looping through a set of twenty-three drawings is just
above
on this page.
Several displays might be used in an exhibit for showing the drawings as a multiplicity of moving images by using videos and web scripts.
A
sixteen-display arrangment
follows:
Videos
The making of videos where each frame corresponds to a single drawing or to a set of drawings is a compact and portable approach
to showing the drawings.
This page opens with a
sixteen-display video
capturing different approaches to showing the drawings.
The following 4k video shows all drawings under two minutes.
A hundred drawings per frame ending with a frame showing all 10,000 drawings.
Another 4k video shows 4x4 drawings on each frame at one frame per second:
Ten thousand drawings are shown as follows in ten minutes at 17 fps. Pausing at any time allows for seeing a single drawing:
The different video approaches to showing ten thousand drawings can then be
arranged as a set of displays as in this demo:
Suites have been arranged in 4k frames playing in this 17-minute video.
Pausing shows a single suite
(as described above Suite nnn includes drawings nnn, 1nnn, 2nnn... 9nnn):
The following video shows all 1,000 suites in about 3 hours,
drawing by drawing at 1fps (one second for each drawing):
Showing the suites of drawings can also be arranged as a set of displays:
Alternatively, a video may offer a time snapshot by displaying all drawings for a particular period.
For instance, the drawings have been organized in seasons or quarters with each seasonal group
having in most cases 273 drawings for 13 weeks with 21 drawings each.
The earliest drawings in "The Drawing Project" are displayed in the following video with a commentary:
The following is a video for the 2018 Spring or 2017-18 fourth quarter. The soundtrack reflects on the practice of chanting often parallel to that of drawing:
More recently a foray into the Amazonia entangled the drawings with the dictation of essays:
Here is a set of displays showing drawings for different periods of the project:
Puerto Vida, Amazonia, Venezia, and Brooklyn. Soundtrack from Puerto Vida:
Books
This is a photograph from an exhibit ("The Unspecific Index," NYC, 2012) with a display showing the drawing cinematically via a script
and with a table holding several books with all the drawings for a one-year period.
This allowed for visitors to have two different ways to see and explore the drawings:
watch a display showing drawings randomly or engage with a set of books organized linearly.
Then, throughout this website, the drawing scans have been scaled to fit frames of the same size.
In the arrangement above for instance, the first two drawings are in the 20x30cm range
whereas the last drawing is A4 size or 29.7x42.0 cm.)
Selecting a small set of drawings might also be done by systematically seeing one drawing every one thousand or about one drawing for each year.
The drawings have then been organized into a thousand "Suites."
For instance, Suite No. 1 includes drawings 0001, 1001, 2001, 3001 and so on up to drawing 9001.
Viewing suites allows for a faster comprehension of the project and for the dispersion of the drawings into exhibits and collections.
These are examples of a few suites. Suite No. 222 looks like:
The opening script can be played as a loop
here.
