Drawings before tracings and light

These images are of the 2 drawings that I have been working with in the tracings and light post.

Tracings and light

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I have been developing the drawings which I have been working on with the text from Heart of Darkness. The original drawings have been printed onto tracing paper which is a medium that I am particularly fond of with its translucent quality. It always seems to offer so much potential to further drawings. The tracing paper I was using this morning had been rolled up for months so kept wanting to return to its rolled up state. After I had photocopied the drawing onto the sheets of tracing paper I stood them in a group intending to then deconstruct and reconstruct them. However, I liked their collective quality with the light coming through the rolls. Some areas of text were subdued or lost whilst other areas were bold. I decided to get my lightbox out again (an increasingly favourite tool) and play around with arranging the drawings in various compositions. The images here are some of these outcomes. I find the light box, such a magical tool, it to seems absorb my focus -dreamlike.
I then layered some flat tracing paper drawings that I made on Wednesday with straight white paper copies in the top images (second to top image) and by shifting the position of the pages into different angles, the resulting images start to have interesting patterns & shapes.
The first image captures my interest in returning to the tonal aspects of drawing through multi layers that sit lightly on the box thus trapping light between the layers.

Drawing

Greedy Phantoms

pilgrims; dead; tenebrous land; greedy phantoms; hollow sham; diabolic love; monstrous bends; grimy fragment; massacres, of blessings; leaky cylinders; abominate; toiled; fascinated; surrender.