JESSICA DICKINSON : notebook drawings

The notebook drawings are made directly with colored pencil in drawing books then torn out and joined with linen tape. Reductive in form, these drawings follow shifts in perception through time and the sensations of seeing, feeling and thinking in the periphery of lived spaces and the body. The combination of restrained forms and the central seam bring attention to their fragility and indicate the intimacy of the book as their source. I use these drawings as “notes”, gathering them in different groupings to help order stages within the paintings. Writing on the back, which I call “notations”, are conceived in conjunction with the drawings, and inform the development of the paintings.

notebook drawings

in: place - in: not - in: cover - edge - not - /release - with:we:you:they - are. (Notebook drawings for Are.)
2015
Group of 8 drawings, Color pencil on paper with linen tape
94 x 16 in (overall) , 11.75 x 16 in (each)

JESSICA DICKINSON notebook drawings Group of 8 drawings, Colored pencil on paper with linen tape

holds: in - this: now - this/and/not/this - :next - this. - before:stop - in: - holds:this (notebook drawings for Are: This)
2015-2016
Group of 8 drawings, Colored pencil on paper with linen tape
94 x 16 in (overall), 11.75 x 16 in (each)

are: than - in: there - /shadow - shadow/ - :was - once: - free/ - here: now (notebook drawings for Are: Here)
2015-2016
Group of 8 drawings, Colored pencil on paper with linen tape
94 x 16 in (overall), 11.75 x 16 in (each)

JESSICA DICKINSON notebook drawings colored pencil on paper with linen tape

what-was-always
2013
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for How-Close

curtain/there/thick
2013
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for How-Close

link
2013
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for How-Close

behind/
2013
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for How-Close

through-it
2014
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for How-Close

fade/stone
2013
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for How-Close

was-once
2013
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for How-Close

must.
2015
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for :More

JESSICA DICKINSON notebook drawings colored pencil and graphite on paper with linen tape with drawing by Nora Handelman

loose-
2014
colored pencil and graphite on paper with linen tape with drawing by Nora Handelman
11.75"x16"

drawing for :More

wait/through
2014-2015
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for :More

/stays
2014
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for :More

in-more
2014
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for :More

hold:follow
2014
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for :More

hold/yet/more
2013
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for :More

now/yet
2014
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for Yet:For

move:
2014
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for Yet:For

hard-opening
2014
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for Yet:For

new/full/able
2014
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for Yet:For

small-begin
2014
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for Yet:For

for:
2014
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for Yet:For

this:for
2015
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for Yet:For

now-
2014
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for Close-Now

this-side
2014
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for Close-Now

/push/
2014
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for Close-Now

divider
2014
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for Close-Now

/pull/
2014
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for Close-Now

starts:
2014-2015
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for Close-Now

no-retreat
2015
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for Close-Now

the curtain/the white one
2013
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for Knows

turn:there
2013
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for Knows

JESSICA DICKINSON notebook drawings graphite on paper with linen tape

be/still
2013
graphite on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for Knows

can be/done
2013
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for Knows

break/shed
2013
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for Knows

now:move
2013
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for Knows

turn:know
2013
graphite on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for Knows

blank/sheer/cover/stone
2013
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for More:Yet

more:give
2013
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for More:Yet

give:see
2013
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for More:Yet

JESSICA DICKINSON notebook drawings colored pencil on paper with linen tape with drawing by Nora Handelman

more/more
2013
colored pencil on paper with linen tape with drawing by Nora Handelman
11.75"x16"

drawing for More:Yet

more:near
2013
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for More:Yet

let/in
2014
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for More:Yet

yet:more
2014
colored pencil on paper with linen tape
11.75"x16"

drawing for More:Yet