This work begins with small, instinctive drawings made during tutorials with students—marks created in the flow of conversation. They are not instructional diagrams, nor planned compositions, but graphic traces (Iversen, 2012) of thinking in motion. The images, although made as part of a dialogue, are not considered collaborative. The gestures here are the author’s own; they scaffold conversation, translate half-thoughts through semi-diagrammatic abstraction, and arguably record a moment of shared focus.

Revisited outside their original context, these meta-cognitive notations are selected for their qualities of line, mark, measure, and rhythm. Reworked through wood engraving, the immediacy of the sketch is slowed and transformed; each mark, once fleeting, becomes deliberate. The printed artefact fixes the image, introducing new tactile and temporal dimensions.

Although the original drawings are created in the immediacy of the present, they are not intended to serve as a record of that moment. The translation of these 
lines into wood engraving reappropriates the images through print, establishing 
a new asynchronous experience of that original moment (Avanessian & Henning, 2015). Through this process, the work explores the value of the original graphic traces—which now form the majority of my engagement with drawing—and how 
the reappropriated images might inform an authorial drawing practice.

These works were selected and included in the Small Print exhibition by the PRINT GSA Research Cluster (Output ID is 10653).