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I've lived a rather nomadic lifestyle and although I now consider the Desert Southwest my home, the wandering days are not over; drawing helps me explore the world. My media is pen and ink. To me, it's all about detail and process. Drawing helps me to understand the human condition, to impose my own sort of order on chaos. Although I am not personally religious, I'm interested in religious and cultural beliefs, customs, rituals, artifacts, icons, symbols, architecture, and the ways in which religion and culture affect each other. I'm drawn to the odd, the quirky, the esoteric; to the grace and flow of textiles and garments on the human form; to the emotional and psychic elements of the human condition, as well as to the physical. My formal training is in technical drawing which, when it isn't an overt element, is a heavy influence in my work.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

On Parade

On Parade
India Ink
7.5 x 2 in. (19,5 x 5 cm)
Catherine L. Mommsen
2009

3 comments:

  1. Hello Catherine ~ I did not realize you had a blog! :) Just saw you over at Katrin's Travel Swap. Your pen and ink drawings are each so fantastic! Your elephants are really speaking to me!

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  2. OK just have to share, to leave my comment, the word verification word I had to type in was "pendom" how appropriate for your beautiful blog :)

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  3. Would like to have that drawing hanging on my wall. Great job Catherine

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