I found artist Henri Michaux's work encompasses the themes we have been introduced to in some of his works. His pieces are created through mescaline induced episodes which then result in his drawings. The expressiveness and linear nature of his pieces add a notion of surrealism and identity. His use of mescaline is referenced to in several of his books including Turblulent Infinity which was translated to English in 1967.
This Quote by him I found quite intriguing and for me really summarised the notions of line.
A line encounters a line, evades a line.
A line waits, hopes, a line rethinks a face.
Ant-high lines. Ant-visibles streaming through lines.
A melodic line crosses twenty stratigraphic fractures.
A line germinates. Martyr-laughable lines.
Lines gaslighting lines. Lines budding on a dune.
A dream of paradise: lines in conversation with their liminal selves.
A line waits, hopes, a line rethinks a face.
Ant-high lines. Ant-visibles streaming through lines.
A melodic line crosses twenty stratigraphic fractures.
A line germinates. Martyr-laughable lines.
Lines gaslighting lines. Lines budding on a dune.
A dream of paradise: lines in conversation with their liminal selves.
(from “Michaux 1956″ in Reciprocal Distillations 2007)
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