100 Days of Containers - By Eliza gagnon

When I set out to draw 100 containers in 100 days I had a few things in mind. One was simply to practice drawing. I don't have drawing training (aside from working my way through half of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain several times.) Drawing doesn't come easily, but it does change the way I see and think, so it feels worthwhile. I chose containers because they are close at hand, provide the kinds of shapes that I keep trying to understand visually, AND because I thought that contemplating these everyday objects would be a way to focus on the opaqueness of so many systems that shape our lives - invisible labor, unknown ingredients, impenetrable financial mechanisms. I will say that in the scramble to draw something every day this "big idea" pretty much fell away. These are the upsides and downsides to 100-day projects. They help sustain small acts of creative work in the face of life's other daily demands. At the same time they may not be as useful in making progress on larger, lumpier, more complicated, and non-distillable art challenges. Perhaps some residue of the larger idea floats around the drawings. I think the process has at least helped me to hold these questions in mind. And I have made a little progress in drawing circles and boxes in perspective...
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