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exercise #1: Entopic Graphomania

This exercise is based on a Surrealist game. 

Simply grab a sheet of paper—it can be a page from an old paperback book, or anything with markings.

Place dots on specific words or letters. You choose what set of marks, words, or letters you want. 

Connect the dots with straight, curved, or zigzag lines to create a pattern. An exercise like this will reveal hidden patterns and shapes in a system-ruled drawing.  Engage in randomness -- there is ALWAYS potential found there!

In Action: Entopic Graphomania  video

f o u n d   p o e t r y

Allow your choice of media, your mark making become meaningful to the context of the text - keep your marks non-objective. Be wary of falling back into old habits of what feels comfortable, or what you feel the drawing should look like. 

Such assumptions are based in old ways of thinking and what you believe a good drawing SHOULD look like.  

E X P E R I M E N T A T I O N  is key!  Do not worry about what the drawing ends up being. Be  I N V O L V E D  in allowing the concept of the page / the found book / etc. lead you into new ways of connecting concept / narrative with your choice of media a mark.

Below are examples of drawings that are based in aesthetics of formal elements and not meaningful marks connected to the substrate the drawing is on...

Student Work