When drawing a face, any face, it is as if curtain after curtain, mask after mask, falls away…until a final mask remains, one that can no longer be removed, reduced….The eye does not judge, moralize , criticize. It accepts the masks in gratitude...
Frederick Franck, 'The Zen of Seeing - Seeing/drawing as meditation'
Pat, 2001, pencil, approx 60 x 40 cm
Peter, 1994, pencil , approx 21 x 15 cm
Gardener at Arcadia, 1998,
wax pencil, approx 40 x 30 cm
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