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| Tattered Hand Drawing |
During my time studying drawing, I focused a lot on the hand: a very difficult subject for me to draw. What you see before you is a painstakingly detailed drawing on paper, with fine swirling and obsessive elements of line work. I spent weeks working on it, making sure that the finger prints had similarities to the human hand. It was quite an involved process, and when it was done, I was proud.
It was a windy and wet day in Salt Lake when the finished product was tucked away into my folder. On my way back to my car, a gust of wind knocked it out of my hands, and it blew the drawing into the street, only to be run over by a Hummer. I was heart broken when it happened, and I could not believe that all my work had been in vain. But several days later, when I came back to the drawing, I realized that it actually looked interesting in its frail condition. It had character and scars and resembled an old artifact. It was incredibly aged and somewhat eerie. I decided to keep the drawing as part of my portfolio, and I learned the lesson that projects are best kept indoors (not loose in folders).
