How do I map meaning before words arrive?
I think that’s it.
Finding my way in.
Then starting to move about the page. Finding another opening. Seeing a shift, a row, an arrow, a direction. Then each line takes shape and organizes itself, much like this drawing was created.
That’s how my brain functions.
That’s how I find meaning.
I’ve always seen relationships first — patterns, structures, connections between things.
This drawing feels connected to that.
It’s built on patterns, and the patterns shift from one system to another — repeating, evolving, reorganizing themselves across the page. In some ways, it reminds me of my Words I Cannot Read series on ArtChangesLives(Dot)Com — fragmented letterforms and systems that almost make sense, carrying meaning even before I fully understand them.
Eventually, the structure loosens, and at the top a small figure appears, waving, greeting, almost as if it has emerged from the system itself.
For me, these drawings are not illustrations after thought.
They are part of the thinking.