A.L. Cook
tags: Drawings / Illustration / Graphic Design
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While combing through some old computer files trying to find something completely different, I stumbled over this old half-baked project that I created in the middle of the night a few years ago. What you see is a hastily cobbled-together viewing box made from black foam-core. Inside I mounted a sheet of glass, upon which there was an image of a little girl from a found photograph. I etched the figure into a layer of smoke and ash which I painstakingly created by burning and rubbing papers onto the glass surface. The back of the box is left open to the light, which creates an eerie back-lit image when the viewer looks through the peephole.
In execution it was too sloppy to merit much consideration from anyone, but the concept remains intriguing.
I have no idea what happened to it.
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Weekend Commentary
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today in my high school painting class, we were assigned the task of doing an "abstract portrait". at least that's what my subpar teacher called them. she showed picasso and matisse as examples. my mind was immediately drawn to your work. i adore your drawings. they're just so... i don't even have a word for it. they're fantastic, and i love them. i hope that my painting will be even a fraction as amazing as your drawings are.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I really cannot express how much this means to me. I gasped aloud, and then got teary-eyed.
I’m sure your painting will be wonderful! If you feel like showing it off when you are finished, please do. I’d love to see.
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Your adoration of the human body, or at least comprehensive understanding of anatomy, is immediately obvious through the spiraling patterns you use. It's an abstract fusion of mathematics and sensation. I adore it.
Anonymous
This is perhaps the most beautiful thing anyone has ever said about my style of drawing, and I don’t have the words to express my thanks.
That my style turned out so mathematical and geometric is a constant source of amusement to me. I have always loathed mathematics because of a minor learning difficulty known as dyscalculia; sort of an offshoot of dyslexia. Perhaps these patterns are my way of expressing my appreciation for the rhythms of mathematics in my own way. I find patterns and interconnected objects very moving. Music, gears, planetary movements, physical and chemical laws, human language, the human body. I may not have been good at expressing those transcendent ideas with numbers (who could, the way math is generally thrown to the calculators?) but I reach for them in my art, it seems.
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Stephen Fry by A.L. Cook
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your art has so much courage and precision im dead Anonymous
I’ve never heard my drawings described as “courageous” before! That really makes my whole day, wow! Thank you!
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Stephen Merchant à le Café Rodin - A.L. Cook
