The relationship of the line to the page…

Art & Fear, David Bayles & Ted Orland, pg 109. “Making art depends upon noticing things-things about yoruself, your methods, your subject matter. Sooner or later, for instance, every visual artist notices the relationship of th eline to the picture’s edge. Before that moment the relationship does not exist; afterwards it’s impossible to imagine it not existing. And from that moment on every new line talks back and forth with the picture’s edge. People who have not yet made this small leap do not see the same picture as those who have-in fact, conceptually speaking, they do not even live in the same world.”

This is EXACTLY the thought that I was exploring last year with my series of abstract drawings that explored the relationship and rhythm of lines with the page and with each other.