24 February 2010

I'm in you, you're in me



This was the title of the drawing experiment which I conducted at the Outlaw Studios during ArtTrail 2009. Honestly, I never thought the title, taken from Peter Frampton's 70's song, was rude but now that I type it, it does seem fairly graphic. No one actually knew the title anyway.

The experiment went as follows--
Two or three volunteers were asked to draw each other for a few minutes until the drawings were beginning to describe some sort of features. Then they were told to switch papers and draw for a few more minutes so they were forced to adapt to what was already on the paper. Some of the participants were artists and others were not. The artists tended to draw over what was already there, but the non-artists tended to avoid it. That is fairly apparent in the three-person example above. But I found the non-artists drawings just as interesting.