365 #drawingaday : Stella Untalan
365 #drawingaday : Stella Untalan
365 #drawingaday : Stella Untalan
Stella Untalan publicly announced on her blog that she was going to do a drawing each day for a year. December First Friday, DoN visited 110 Church Gallery and asked her if she was able to stick to her plan? There were some empty spots on the walls, from sales, where drawings are missing but a whole section is dedicated to the future for more drawings to complete the entire calendar year.
Stella Untalan said, “So, I have all these little pegs up, so, that will take November and December. I just stopped printing them because it was just too hard to get them all done in time. But the whole year will be up – every day.”
365 #drawingaday : Stella Untalan, 110 Church Gallery
Is it a calendar? There is one of the abstract meditations for every day of the year.
“I was thinking about a book. But, it’s a lot of pages. I mean, its 365 pages – plus. And looking at that, you know, I blog it and write about each piece. Sometimes not immediately, but, like a week later, I’ll look at it and write about the piece. http://artlog.stellauntalan.com/. What happens, I will post a piece and I’ll write about it and revisit what I remember while making the drawing, if I don’t remember I write about the bolt, the surprise of what this is now. So, I do that and the book that I’m looking to doing would have the blog text of the left side, the verso, and the image on the recto. I started to look at it and realized it would be very thick.”
365 #drawingaday : Stella Untalan, 110 Church Gallery
“I can’t do a Blurb book because they only go up to 400 pages. To make these, it’s more than six hundred pages. 700 pages?”
Is the web a better place for this idea? It’s so accessible. But the prints are superior with a wonderful sense of the hand.
“Well, it’s a nice thing but the presentation is really different. In a book there’s just something really nice. I have a mock up of the book and there’s just something wonderful to opening the book and leaving it to that drawing for a while and looking at it. So, I have an idea to make a post bound book and make one, probably laser print one, and put it together and see how much that would cost. It would depend on the money. And I’d like to make some on a softer paper that are also post bound but might be ink-jet. But I have to check the prices of this, there are some people who are interested but I would have to see what that would cost.”
“You know, you could have every drawing and that would be the book.”
365 #drawingaday : Stella Untalan, 110 Church Gallery
The drawing a day project has so many ways to interact with viewers and Stella Untalan has stories for each day but finds that people are telling her their stories for days that are important to them.
“What’s so surprising is that I have a whole perception about the pieces, there’s a whole different one because I’ve never seen them all together. So, I’m surprised. But, the other people come to it and they’re telling you what they like about the pieces, that they were drawn to a particular piece and it’s just like…it’s interesting. Really visceral, ‘I like this one, I like that one!’ It’s really exciting.”
“And it’s not just me, I mean it’s about the excitement of the art of it, it’s like, ‘Wow.'”
365 #drawingaday : Stella Untalan, 110 Church Gallery through January 18th, 2013.
Written and photographed by DoN Brewer.
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