Sep/6/2025
Dear Song,
How's it going? Have you solved the problem you told me last time?
Yesterday I submitted the academic research project that has completely absorbed me for the past six months, and now we can re-start planning our projects together!
The latest exhibitions I've visited (in Darby, Manchester, Liverpool, and London) have given me a lot of energy.
They reminded me of my years at the Academy of Fine Arts and, as I recalled my first drawings, I reflected on the pleasure of the creative act for the first time in a long time.
In recent years my creative process has meant research, study, achieving a form, conveying a message. The intellectual and social aspects of my work have taken over my modus operandi, to the point that I've stopped thinking of drawing as a form of pleasure. On the contrary, drawing had begun to put pressure on me, like writing an academic paper.
So I decided to start drawing again, as if I were learning for the first time, as if I'd never done it before, to rediscover the joy of the act, the pleasure of losing myself in creating forms and scenarios without a precise plan. In this process of double return—a return to my childhood self and a return to minimal drawing—two interesting lines of work were born, one concerning the personal and political significance of playfulness and the other the role of auto-ethnobiography.
I've attached some photos.
If you're interested in the topic, I'd love to explore it further with you.
But first I wanted to know about us.
Please, let me know everything.
Loads of hugs
Rob
In recent years my creative process has meant research, study, achieving a form, conveying a message. The intellectual and social aspects of my work have taken over my modus operandi, to the point that I've stopped thinking of drawing as a form of pleasure. On the contrary, drawing had begun to put pressure on me, like writing an academic paper.
So I decided to start drawing again, as if I were learning for the first time, as if I'd never done it before, to rediscover the joy of the act, the pleasure of losing myself in creating forms and scenarios without a precise plan. In this process of double return—a return to my childhood self and a return to minimal drawing—two interesting lines of work were born, one concerning the personal and political significance of playfulness and the other the role of auto-ethnobiography.
I've attached some photos.
If you're interested in the topic, I'd love to explore it further with you.
But first I wanted to know about us.
Please, let me know everything.
Loads of hugs
Rob
