Drawing on physics

I once asked a student of mine what they were thinking as they were drawing (after the drawing had been completed). She wasn't able to answer that question without some frustration, as it is often hard to separate the analytical from the intuitive aspects which comprise the making of some works of art. This young person had been taught formal issues (line, shape, volume) which I knew she had been contemplating, but what about her own unabridged personal and intuitive thoughts? Perhaps the formal and informal concepts are so inseparable as to make taking a divided verbal stance quite meaningless. Simultaneity may be an observer-independent fact, hard to fully comprehend.

Artists draw in the present, remember past concepts, and anticipate future goals and images yet to be made, all in the present moment. The convergence of time? Does time dissolve in the making of art?

With my drawings, I try to describe seemingly unfinished, disconnected and fragmented patternings (that overlap one another and cause simultaneous collisions), as part of a visual wholeness. It's as though this maelstrom of arranged pieces, a participant in the world before the splintering pieces stopped whirling, produces a calm stationery effect of equanimity. Space and time - a continuum?

Here are two of my recent drawings:
"Ethiopian Dialect" 19" x 25" graphite (top)
"Queen Mother" 19" x 25" graphite (lower image)