DATHINI MZAYIYA

My sound drawings are explorations of sound and mark making. The marks develop, because as an artist one follows a rhythmic motion. The layering of the lines makes sense, the layering of lines become a rhythm of sort, a harmony. The artist listens as he makes a mark, and observes the direction the marks are taking you towards. In some way, sound drawings are also a spontaneous challenge, that as an artist, you enter into. Like when you are in a boxing ring – the drawing presents you with challenges along the way.

In musidrawology, there are already a set of challenges, and a set of processes that one gets through. Musidrawology is a breaking away from your usual way of drawing. Because we artists are always confined to individual isolated spaces and defined by expectations from the ‘outside’ which looks at end result and not the process of making art. Musidrawology is about showing the process of making art.

One of the fundamental ideas in Musidrawology is ‘challenge’. Letting go of your norms of practice and opening up to your levels of creativity and artistry: confident of mark making, drawing always a space to regain your brush-stroke making, healing return, regaining of technique. Musidrawology invokes one’s entire creative process, in which one makes certain choices which are not dependent on an outside person for validation.