Today Juliana Cope and myself, Sherrard Bostwick, began a two week long artistic residency in the window of the Soapbox Gallery at 636 Dean Street in Brooklyn, New York. The residency is a continuation of a nearly year long Cope/ Bostwick artistic exchange and collaboration to explore drawing in the broadest sense... drawing as marks that form what we see and how we think.
In late spring 2007, we set some perimeters for collaborative drawing. Once set, guidelines were immediately challenged. As Adorno said, art tends to negate itself as it incessantly alters form. The hours spent setting expectations were undermined by creating the artworks. As we were exhausting our patience for talk, we built a foundation of trust in our experience. The experience central to our collaboration was allowing each other to finish our drawings.
For me this exchange as been a door outside of myself. My drawings when passed on to Juliana were extended, transformed, or completely altered into unrecognizable surprises. The drawings opened to another hand and delighted in the otherness.
There are two sides to the exchange. I had to draw into Juliana's work, too. The weight of how to respond to something I didn't understand or create, forced me to follow blind possibilities until they played out. Today as we installed MAKING/BODIES/ TIME, I watched us follow this fragile thread of trust and possibilities that continuously opens onto what is other and brings it in.
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