Works

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...A PRELIMINARY STUDY IN TRANFORMATION

Paul Henrickson

tm 2015

These several works selected from nearly 400 , chosen more at

random than less, are arranged chronologically in the order of
their execution and comprise an experiment focusing as best I
was able to limiting , or accepting, changes in formal structure
to ideas which stemmed from the prior work.

The idea came from two works a 7 year old gave me one Easter
when in a treasurable moment of sharing with me who he
thought he was gave me two works which he had executed
within a 30 minute period in situ

What had interested me at the time was what psuchologists

had kow n and observed for some time that the representation
of onees position in space , by some conceptual nature, moves
from the representation of the ground on which we stand as a

base line to representing that ground as an extended platform

extending off to some indeterminate space.

The formal execution evident in these drawings were basically

circles, lines and a back and forth, left and right,
movement of the hand holding the crayon. These
comprised a very elemental technical level of execution
intended to tell a story of some sort.

But, story-telling aside, my primary interest was in how, over

the course of time, technical. or formal, changes might
occur which had no purpose in story telling which in both
the history of art and in art criticism are of greater
importance than the subject being illustrated.

There may have been some degree of difficulty in my assuming

the role of a seven year old and any developing
sophistication evident in these works may be laid to the
fact that I am adult and one wih considerable experience
in picture making.

Despite these limitations it seemed to me worthwhile to give

the matter a try. In acruality the experience, which is not
yet complete, has already pushed my functioning
awareness beyond the boundaries of which I had been
conscious before.

The series should be read as from the top (the earliest) to the
bottom (the latest).