The Mount

Practised Unseeing

Drawing is practised unseeing. As described by Derrida below, memory creates a link between hand and eye.

“a duel is established between the will to see everything and forget nothing and the faculty of memory, which has formed the habit of a lively absorption of general color and of silhouette, the arabesque of contour. An artist with a perfect sense of form but accustomed to relying above all on his memory and his imagination will find himself at the mercy of a riot of details all clamoring for justice with the fury of a mob in love with absolute equality all justice is trampled underfoot, all harmony sacrificed and destroyed”(Derrida 45)

Blind contour drawing harmonizes the hand with the eye, without the added confusion that one's memory and imagination often creates.

Montreal Skyline

Three Carriages

New York Singer@ Zeke's

Carlos @ Santropol

Locusts, in time for the bug show?

Parc Jean Mance

Homage to Richter - Stag

St.Laurent

Le Palais de Justice

Sherbrooke

The Hookah Lounge, August 20th, 2005

D-Rangers @ Casa de Popolo, Montreal

Hair Pie Poetry @ Zeke's Gallery

The Isiah Cecerilli Band, 2005

Corduroy

A Blind Contour Drawing of L'Hopital Notre Dame

L'Hopital Notre-Dame by James Culleton, 2005, pen on paper, 32cm x 48cm

Two Pen Cat Contour, 2005

Montreal Doorway, 2005, by James Culleton

Squirrel 

Ottawa Parliament Building, 13.5" x 6", pen on paper, 2005 

Under the Bridge to Hull, 2005, 6" x 13.5", pen on paper, by James Culleton 

Touching and Seeing

Contour drawing is the simultaneous expression of tactile form and visual form.

Flower 

Las Meninas(after Velasquez), 2005, pen on paper, 10" x 10" 

Story

I.

Nothing is measured
to bring little in lots

Nothing is touched
for vapourous tones

Nothing is turned
if ready or not

Nothing is shaped
be it formal dissolve

II.

The one and the many
of nothing engaged

The sun explodes
the divine scattered run

The colours, the colours!

The contours, the line,
and extension

From point to point
rages delicate
love and sin

III.

The duty of lovers
the violence of loci
engaged

Let there be light
in the nothingness

Circle of Bugs, 2003, pen on paper, 3 x 6, by James Culleton 

Lilacs, 2005, pen on paper, 4 x 6, by James Culleton 

Berri Building, 2005, pen on paper, 8 x 11