no language but

‘IT’S AS THOUGH YOU’D LIKE TO SPEAK, BUT HAVE NO LANGUAGE.’ These are the words chosen by German painter Max Neumann to describe his earliest—and perhaps deepest—impulse to create.

TRANSLATOR: ANDREA SCRIMA INTERVIEWER: JOACHIM SARTORIUS Here

I can get behind this description.

I have very vague thought form which gets clearer when I see things that share elements. Just one. The things that relate to it all relate in different ways. Maybe the the thought form changes over the years.

It can process anxiety and stress – & stir them up if ignored or abused, and when it links to deeper emotions can grow a powerful sense of existential grief.

The MA has been asking us to analyse where ideas come from, in a sense I think they are formed from stray cogitation. and then they need exercising and training. Practice helps give them form especially repetition.

Digital drawing, 2024

Working these a lot.

Digital drawing after Bruegel, 2024