The Drawing room

Drawing 100 © Vong Phaophanit

Drawing can be related to performing when it records a process of external transformation, of self power, of cathartis. In the context of a residency, such as the Centre for Drawing, drawing for the purpose of drawing doesn't respond to a practical demand (like when drawing to keep record or inform) which makes it difficult to know how to start, even more difficult to know how to stop.
Artist Vong Phaophanit stretches the nature of drawing by qualifying it as " the most basic of acts (...) without a specific function ". He compares his position in the isolation of the Drawing room in front of the blank paper, to the one of being like a sponge absorbing external sounds breaking through the walls (sounds of the outside world, coming from the sculpture workshop area behind his room and from a nearby primary school). When looking at his drawings in that perspective it's very affirming of what they encompass, it makes it clearer to the eye that they recall sound vibrations and are " results of an experience of the unconscious (...), moments of vacillation between consciousness and unconsciousness. "