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Title: Drawing the first breath
Authors: Briffa, Vince
Keywords: Drawing
Artists
Tarxien Temples (Tarxien, Malta)
Issue Date: 2023
Citation: Briffa, V. (2023). Drawing the first breath. Short essay for the exhibition catalogue – In Search of Line, Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti, Malta.
Abstract: The following are a series of small musings gathered from Vince Briffa’s many visits to the Museum of Archaeology in Valletta, Malta, after viewing a particular item: the incised sherd with a rough sketch of a human figure. On the process of drawing from life To draw is inevitably to act in and around time. The flow of the gyrating hand as choreographed by the whole body guides the drawing tool through a process of mark-making, the result of which is in itself also a record of the drawing hand’s trajectory in time. To draw is, therefore, to capture movement in stillness on a surface, where the active present is fossilised into a record of its own past.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/108563
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