A response to Time

Steph, I do find your comments very interesting and pertinent. As for time, in articular, I like to think of it as Michel Serres does: in meteorological terms.  In Spanish (as well as in French and other Romance languages) we use the same word, time, to refer to both chronological time and to meteorological one (what in English you call weather). This assumes that the nature of time is chaotic, multidimensional and topological rather than geometrical (as you suggest and Bergson pointed out, classical time is related to metrics, to its measurement, and has nothing to do with space). So I would say that there is indeed a sense of temporal depth in what I am trying to achieve while drawing. If such making allows for contemplative time in the viewer the better, although I wouldn’t know.

I would have to think about your second point … In my case, the importance of drawing has always lain in it being a gesture that allows for a certain form thinking to be manifested (that is, drawing as a gesture that gives an idea an aesthetic form). It is only recently that I have realized that drawing represents a very specific ‘occupation of time’.