Depth Drawing as a process of grouping and harmonizing creative sources in an individual
an article by Goran Stojčetović
an article by Goran Stojčetović
Grouping and harmonization are a complex psycho-visual sum of decisions made by the person drawing in relation to associations experienced during drawing and talking while drawing… fascinating, pleasant, a little less pleasant, embarrassing and unacceptable. Within this whirlwind lies the creative potential of every human being on this planet.
Laying the pen down onto a surface… that first dot before we get it rolling and start forming a line has always been and will continue to be a one-of-a-kind inception of communication. We begin pushing this dot onward, and backward, left and right, faster, and then slower, rough and gentle… the line we are forming is actually an endless series of changes in the position of this dot branching out into infinite possibilities ultimately making it final and spatially fixed. It is in fact a permanent “record” of a single dot’s motion through various psychic planes guided by will and the individual’s sense of the visible and the tangible.This “record” is unimaginably important because it is original and singular, and it indirectly speaks of all the impulses to an infinite number of decisions made by the person drawing while moving the dot in relation to its original position.
We can understand it as a grouping of wishes, but also resistance toward subconsciously centralized form and expression. During depth drawing, many phases obstruct the artist’s path toward a centralized goal, and in those seconds centers of consciousness are being born. That means that some of these infinite positions of motion become transformers of alternating wish forces and resistance forces and very constructively affect the following changes in the position of the dot, which is reflected in the altered course of the line. This is how a line avoids serving to illustrate the unconscious centralized source imposing itself of its own “volition” and becoming a “living being” in the eyes of the one drawing. This process is often quite exciting, because the person drawing begins to realize there are situations happening in front of them which are only formally connected to art.
They understand they are in their own happening in which they serve as mediators.
The depth drawing is a process closest to the source of psychic mechanisms which create dreams, visions, fantasies, hallucinations… I believe, all visual impulses in people. Thus, each inner image is specially crafted in order to tell us something with its content. Something we are not consciously able to see. This inner image is made from everyday motifs dislocated or reshaped through reasonably impossible combinations with a single goal, to make us question and potentially correct decisions, opinions, wishes and strivings, which we, most often misguidedly, project toward the outer world.
People are very rarely aware of the fact that the day-life they lead and find roles in is actually based on rules governed by deeply invisible processes within them and running through them. These processes are absolutely active and autonomous… simply put, when we are born, we inherit both micro and macro impulses of the entire living world, from the very birth of humanity. From inherited, genetic psychic matrices to socially-conditioned psychic frameworks an individual resides in, there is a constant series of interconnected influences which form this individual. Thus, the longing of an individual for freedom is often a predictable psychically-focused tendency and as such susceptible to manipulation.
An abstract goal such as freedom always depends on relations between the individual and society, and there are almost 8 billion individuals on the planet. Freedom is therefore nothing more than an inspired psychic process, an individual’s journey toward the archetype of the Paradise lost.
The depth drawing reins in those impulses and makes them useful to an individual, because they face one with real potentials and mechanisms through which one can achieve liberation, and not freedom, not an ideal, not a fixation, but a real force occupying the given space and time. The depth drawing is thus a path which the individual uses to construct freedom through constant liberation, step by step, and at the same time develop one’s drawing skills.
Goran Stojčetović
