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Marcia Binnendyk: Drawings

by Marcia Binnendyk, Feb 1, 2004


 

 










A small portfolio of Binnendyk's drawings appeared in works & conversations #4 (Feb. 2001).

Binnendyk's drawings are not only original in themselves, but uncannily reflective of the self in contemporary life. They are, as she says, "from my journals. I do them usually while on the phone, or late at night when I'm at the end of the day and relaxing. The drawings are always done for relaxation, and never consciously attempting to draw anything in particular."

At the time these were published [2001, w&c #4] Binnendyk was living in LA and spending most of her working days inside an office cubicle doing web design. About that, she wrote, "I have to tell myself that my whole LA experience seems equivalent to the Native American ritual of being wrapped up in a blanket and voluntarily engaging in sensory and nutritional deprivation—and praying for some clear sight."

Looking at these offhand drawings today, 23 years later, they seem even more apt as an expression of the dissociated mental space in which we swim today as if fish in water. And with the advent of AI, how much more deeply will our dreams of life fall away from reality? —Richard Whittaker

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Richard Whittaker is the founding editor of works & conversations and West Coast editor of Parabola magazine.         

 

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