Leslie Hirst


Airplane Drawing No. 76 

Airplane Drawing No. 74 

Airplane Drawing No. 46 

Airplane Drawing No. 10 

Airplane Drawing No. 35 

Airplane Drawing No. 11
Airplane Drawings
These drawings began as preparation sketches for other compositions, but in time, I came to see the drawings as autonomous narratives; raw, but complete in their instinctual making and form. Simply, when I see something of interest on the ground outside the window of an airplane, I grab the most convenient drawing implement (usually a ballpoint pen) and the most convenient thing to draw on (usually a magazine) and I look for the greatest amount of unprinted space on which to execute a representation of what I see. What transpires is a strange meld of glyph and graphic, topography and typography that results in uncanny relationships I could not have otherwise predicted.
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