Deconstruction of big drawing

Today in our drawing session we had to deconstruct our big drawings. Change and challenge them and see how far we could go with them. We were told "don't be too precious" and that there is no finished outcome. Initially I worried about taking mine apart and demolishing it, as I didn't want to ruin what I had spent 3 days doing. We were given a list of words to think about when doing this. They were things like to pierce, roll, edge, multiply, condense, shatter, decompose and crumple. The word that really stood out to me straight away was shatter. I thought about how I could do this to my drawing. I started by cutting out rectangles and then binding the insides together using thread to create this effect....

I then started slicing bits out but not taking them out completely to create a 3D effect and weaving strips of my drawing together.

After doing the weaving I wanted to start adding other materials on top of my drawing. I started adding bits of coloured rags and bits of video tape to create more of a textured surface. I felt that adding colour was slightly daring.

I also joined up bits of threads and ribbons.

I felt like I was demolishing the inside of the drawing and being too scared to chop away at the whole thing by keeping the frame of the drawing very structure. I think this was because my drawing was already very textile and had a lot of things coming off it which made it hard to chop into bits. From this I decided to work on the edges breaking them apart and making them completely abstract. I cut a lot into the edges and started plating the strands I had to make a pattern.

I then thought about dangling bits of the drawing that had been cut out to create that never ending effect.

This almost bought the drawing to life and gave it a 3D feel. I also think it linked well with the word shatter, as they were little bits of the drawing, that had been shattered away from the original.

I felt at the end I was trying to reconstruct the drawing back together in some ways as I still wanted to keep it one piece and not lots of little ones as I felt it was abstract enough, this was my final outcome....

It felt like we were almost peeling away at what we had done but in reverse so starting with the last thing that completed the drawing and going back to when it was just a blank piece of paper. It really showed me what thought processes go in to drawing and how a drawing doesn't always have to be a finished piece with a final outcome.