As a premise for the ‘blind’ drawings i created, I firstly looked at the power of being a creator and the ability one has to ‘escape the real world through drawing’ . As I am very interested in Philosophy, – Epistemology in particular, I drew comparisons to Early Greek philosopher Plato’s idea of ”The Realm of Forms” Presented in the Socratic dialogue of ‘The replublic’. Essentially through the Analogy of ‘The cave’ Plato Presents the idea that the World we reside in, and our perception of emotions and our surroundings is a mere illusion and a shadow of the ‘real world’ that is in its true ‘Form’ in the realm of forms. In short Plato denounces Empiricism as invalid, Thus I felt it appropriate to bring this idea into my work and think about through drawing and image making, one can create a ‘perfect realm’. Specifically i found this very relevant to my style of image making, as i do not partially excel in accurately depicting my surroundings from direct observation onto paper, i tend to ‘Create Ideals’ and when i draw i draw from just my imagination, or when i am drawing something in front of me, i enjoy editing it, and finding ways to make it visually more playful on paper.

I wanted to challenge this notion through ‘blind’ drawing, and experiment with taking away the control of being able to edify what i see in front of me, to explore a wider side of ‘What drawing is”.



These blind drawings document my weekly trip to London from Brighton