Freedom and Flight
graphite on cream colored drawing paper 7"x10"
June 2011
Fundamentally, this drawing is about perceptions/conceptions (or misperceptions/misconceptions) and the paradoxical and illusory nature of freedom.
The title, more specifically, refers to the dichotomy of achieving freedom through escape while being imprisoned to perpetual flight. Using the visual metaphor of a bird in flight representing freedom, the bird’s decent (or the metaphor's "falling") depicts the futility or irrelevance of pursuing false or misguided conceptions of freedom.
Other concepts explored include: death as freedom/life is never free from death and freedom to be one's self/never being free from one's self.
