Heather Eliza Walker
Falling from Trees
Ink on paper 2015-2016
89 x 63cm
A few close-ups of the drawing below. I had requests to post images where people were able to read the words, so I have tried to piece it together logically!
Falling from Trees
Ink on paper 2015-2016
89 x 63cm
A few close-ups of the drawing below. I had requests to post images where people were able to read the words, so I have tried to piece it together logically!
Everything in this drawing came about during a walk in the Perthshire forests. The words describe a bank where I rested beside a stream and just watched everything that was happening. Around that time I had been trying to write from a tiny creature's point of view; I imagined they don't know there is a sky in the way that humans do.
The little creatures came about as a combined result of my drawing process, which sort of evolves its own shapes by following line on line and shading, but after the drawing was finished I went to stay with my parents in the house where I grew up in Dunfermline, Fife - and I suddenly had a memory of stick-insect-envy! My brother, years ago when we were children, had an enormous jar in his bedroom/boy-den in which he kept a hallowed stick insect. It was truly a creature of wonder to us. When it sadly passed away, it was a while until we realised what had happened and its body had gone mouldy, still attached to its branch in the jar.
This memory led me to Google stick insects with mind-boggling results - I didn't know there were ones that look exactly like leaves!
©Heather Eliza Walker 2015-2016
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The little creatures came about as a combined result of my drawing process, which sort of evolves its own shapes by following line on line and shading, but after the drawing was finished I went to stay with my parents in the house where I grew up in Dunfermline, Fife - and I suddenly had a memory of stick-insect-envy! My brother, years ago when we were children, had an enormous jar in his bedroom/boy-den in which he kept a hallowed stick insect. It was truly a creature of wonder to us. When it sadly passed away, it was a while until we realised what had happened and its body had gone mouldy, still attached to its branch in the jar.
This memory led me to Google stick insects with mind-boggling results - I didn't know there were ones that look exactly like leaves!
©Heather Eliza Walker 2015-2016
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