Cadernos do abismo: memorial de uma poética desenhada entre páginas de sketchbooks

Abstract

This research presents the creative process of notebooks of the abyss, tiny sketchbooks in which I lay down existencial contents in autobiographical drawings. Based on the notion of “drawing as abyss”, developed by Icleia Cattani, I poetically elaborate the abyss itself as the issues that animate the depths of being and impel my creative process and my personal trajectory, locating this artistic practice in the range of those which belong to the autobiographical space and into the fields of contemporary drawing, whose experiential aspect is exalted: it connects more to life’s histories, to the rescue of personal memories and to the expression of emotions. The research aims to explore the creative process of the notebooks of the abyss throughout the autobiographical drawing as a caretaker poetic language that generates knowledge and self knowledge in the poetic trajectory of these notebooks which I consider as artist’s books. By crossing thoughts of Michel Foucault and Marcia Tiburi, this artistic work is connected with the notions of “self writing” and “care of the self” and is presented as a caretaker making, a practice of life. I look inside its founding procedures and reflect upon drawing from the mirror and other matters such as the line and the trace as poetic potencies and the connection between words and images as characteristic of this living writing, avid for reinforcing the understanding of sketchbooks as spaces that enable the artists to communicate their procedures and thoughts to theirselves as well as to others.