"One pencil can write 50,000 English words or make a line 55 kilometers long" - found in a school textbook.
Artist Statement
Drawing requires concentrated seeing and thoughtful rendering while it allows for extended inquiries that have the potential to reveal the overlooked or under appreciated. The series, 'pencilled, as it were' begins with statistics about pencils found in a school textbook, progresses through questions of measurement for both line length and the number of words written. The written words concern clouds, their naming and observation. The text prompts a further investigation of the language of cloud formation and observation. The work investigates art making, markmaking and language in visual art.
Louise Phillips graduated from Emily Carr University in 2010. She has won a number of awards and scholarships. Her artist books are in the Emily Carr University Library, Special Collections and the Washington University College of Art Library in St Louis, MO. Her drawings are in private collections.
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