Eight drawings

60 Eight drawings Anthony Goicolea The sense of foreboding tinged with playful fantasy, characteristic of many of my photographs, is mimicked in a suite of complex, layered compositions in ink, graphite, paint, and other materials sandwiched between sheets of mylar and plexiglass. Mimicking the layering processes I have used in my previous photographs and digital video editing , I am able to play with opacity, depth of field and scale through the use of collage, tracing and rendering. Drawing and painting gives me an immediate sense of invention and enables a suspension of disbelief. In my drawings, Figures of indeterminate age and gender pass over and through each other in layered two-dimensional planes of mylar separated by varying thicknesses of plexi-glass. The ghostlike figures are caught in free-floating, awkward, transitional states: sometimes their images are doubled; sometimes they seem as much animal as human. Their bodies fade in and out of each other in a series of tentative lines resembling a palimpsest and referring to memory and transitive states. These absurd predicaments strive to provoke conflicting emotions in the viewer. Scenes that would normally appear threatening or grotesque , inspire empathy as well as fear, and ultimately are revealed to be more complex than was first assumed. Disassembly Balseros Constellation Cat’s Cradle Petroleum Dream Red Sky Bloodstone ...