Drawn in the early hours while listening to At Home with David Hockney.
My energy is especially low today (after buying a car yesterday!) and I wasn’t sure if I was up to drawing at all. But there’s always something about being awake and making a tray of tea things to bring back to bed that nudges me toward reaching for my sketchbook — a habit attached to a habit that is hard to resist (even when energy is very low!).
Listening to David Hockney in the dark felt companionable. Among other things, he talked about how looking takes time — how we don’t see everything at once, and how a picture can hold that slow seeing.
I loved his reminder that “the more you look, the more you see.”
His life, like mine is very small and mostly home-based. He talked about he only leaves the house to go to medical appointments, his local bookshop and the marijuana shop. No marijuana shop here — and replace his bookshop for my library — and our lives look very similar. As with what Tracey Emin was saying a few days ago, I found this very comforting…
I enjoyed making this drawing — just a simple line drawing. It felt less daunting than tackling a full Tea-Tray drawing today when my energy is so low, and I felt calm listening and drawing.
I don’t think I captured David, but I love the lines (and now the memory of making them).
