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Rummaging through a Drawer

16/9/2013

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I was quite taken aback a week ago when I was asked to attend an interview and told to take with me "any references and certificates you may have"....

I had not been asked to produce my assorted O's and A's and my Diploma from the University of Malta in ages. I searched high and low (mostly low - the lower forgotten drawers) but after an hour or two of fruitless rummaging through drawer after drawer I had targeted all the likely - and some less likely - places, but drew only one huge hollow blank. It was only some hours later that my dear wife thought of the one huge drawer just underneath the bed....the elephant-of-drawers in the room. Yep there they were in all their yellowed glory. But more interesting were a few drawings I unearthed in this forgotten well....drawings of youth really...full of angst, tension, anxiety...the sort of stuff I am not really up to any more these days but which I still look upon with some loving.


I can hardly remember how these were done - most probably an assortment of inks and I definitely used wax candles to get the interesting effects. Some are dated (mostly 1985) and some are not...and none are titled. Enjoy! 
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Undated and untitled - but I guess the inspiration comes from the cover of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures...
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Undated landscape - this must be countryside outside Rabat
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Figure dated 1985 - wild guess is an Egon Schiele influence
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A variation of the landscape further up with imaginery telegraph poles thrown in - and I am sure the Dire Straits hit was the influence on this one....loved the song then...and still do somewhat 
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I think this is a copy of mine of a very early Picasso - something the master had done before his teens.
I was twenty four when I did this...further comment is superfluous.
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JC
16/9/2013 11:20:19 pm

Your 'style' has certainly changed Steven but then, these are your beginnings.

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