Craig Dongoski

Craig Dongoski

My work derives from investigations into a grey area between drawing and writing. The physical action of both have been a source of compelling curiosity for me. The relationship of the spoken and written word has lead me to explore the connection between the drawn mark and the sound produced while inscribing. These explorations have manifested into two main projects entitled Drawing Voices [drawing] and Homophonic Translation [writing].

This body of work was produced in the aftermath of quasi-scientific studies. Entitled Durations, it separates itself from the previous in that it embraces reflection, non-collaboration and avoids technology. The rate of these are drawings produced very slowly. They connect themselves visually and conceptually to assimilating with geological time and sound waves. One could think of my method being inverted in that rather than responding to a sound that yields a pictorial result, I am responding to a visual [line] that yields a spectrographic result. I also see these works as internal expressions. The slow and obsessive nature of the process literally places me within the work at a microscopic [microphonic] vantage.

 

 


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