Prestidigitation

“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.” – Bruce Lee

Waves are a magical phenomenon like a rabbit from a hat. Water retains the shape of its container most of the time, but it is subject to unseen forces. Without interaction from the mundane physically observed stuff of this world the water swells, crests and crashes as if organized by some unseen conductor orchestrating a symphony of geysers. Could this metamorphosis have been the first inkling that coastal dwellers had of an unseen realm? Are the cycles of the moon and their relationship to the tide the first non-solar thing that would lead people into astrological thinking? Are other astrological influences had on other parts of the natural world in subtler ways we have yet to observe?

Lets go surfing now

This series of sketches is focused on the wave  shape. All of these sketches are from a symbolic mode of drawing and the waves are imagined. Drawing waves is an exercise in understanding fluid forms. All of the sketches were done with a Pilot Metropolitan in Noodler’s Black Eel on various types of paper. The white and red on the brown paper drawing is Conte pencil.