This grid drawing, made in either late 2006 or early 2007 (There is no date on the paper, just "#17" written on the back), was made without any documentation of process. At the behest of my Ecuadorian mentor, Oswaldo Viteri, I abandoned the strict practice of always thinking and re-thinking every creative decision made in my artistic production. By taking his suggestions, grid drawings began to form in altogether different ways; they did not require nearly as much time to complete, and so more time could be devoted to creative compositional elements, and when what might have been rules were broken, there was no need to erase or correct those divergent details.
In my new series, these drawings are revisited, their unwritten guidelines and codes of conduct revealed for the sake of re-creating their image. To do this, each line and point must be investigated, labeled, and recorded; and each mistake made must become part of the process.
This very drawing has been used previously to determine "Glass Chaos Drawing #2", but in a very different way.
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