HeyJaredryosukeart
Charcoal drawings, essays on art and attention, and quieter ways of seeing.
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Prints, for Three Days Only (opens the original)
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I have decided to begin offering prints of my work.A small selection of drawings I have made so far will be available for three days only, in limited quantities.Carrying the Marks of CharcoalI work in charcoal. Through the figures of people and animals, I try to draw the emotions that exist before words, and the quiet presence of a living thing.Each drawing begins with a rough image in my mind. Reproducing it exactly, though, is never the goal. Charcoal dust settles in places I did not expect. R
Drawing With the Crooked Parts Left In (opens the original)
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There are parts of every person that resist explanation, even to themselves.Things that pull at you for no clear reason. Things others would call trivial, yet you cannot let go of. And the reverse: things everyone around you seems to cherish, which you simply cannot bring yourself to feel the same warmth toward.For a long time, I kept those parts out of sight. Whatever made me different, I tried not to draw attention to. Whatever leaned too far in one direction, I shaved down, little by little,
This month’s scan. While it’s here. (opens the original)
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This is the fifth of these monthly scans.This month, again, a high-resolution scan. Available to download from this post for 30 days.Use it as a phone wallpaper, a desktop or tablet background, or simply something to glance at during the day.A scan lets you see the work in a way the original itself can’t offer. Almost all of this one is dark, and on a screen it can read as a single black mass. But zoom in, and the black opens up. You can follow the fur one stroke at a time, the charcoal caught i
Even When It Isn't Working, I Stay (opens the original)
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The world around me has been changing, slowly.Invitations arrive from places I never imagined when I started drawing. People overseas look at my work. A few of them now own a piece of it.These are good changes. But the more my circumstances shift, the more often I face choices I have never had to make before.And in those moments, the instant I begin wondering how it looks to other people, I stop moving.When we try something new, we tend to run through events that have not happened yet.What if I
Is the Person Who Never Breaks the Strong One? (opens the original)
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When people talk about strength, the image that comes to mind is someone who never complains and endures whatever arrives. I carried that picture around for a long time.Lately I have begun to wonder whether that is the only kind of strength there is.Two people can do the same thing. One tires quickly. The other keeps going for years, to a degree that seems almost unreasonable. It is tempting to call the difference willpower. Whether a person can keep producing energy over a long stretch may be m
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