The purpose of my art is to provoke............

................and currently the anagram is at the core of my provokation. 
In recently introducing into my blog the applicability and relevance of the anagram to the way I had been perceiving and drawing the human body I referred to Hans Bellmer's quote "The anagram is the key to all my work" (the body is like a sentence that invites dissection in order that its true meaning may be gleaned through the act of reconstruction). The reconstructed body then becomes a powerful reflection of the artist.
So for the time being I am going along with this idea that the purpose of my art is to provoke: (I) to provoke in me a continuation of my lfe-drawing journey of discovery, and (ii) to provoke in the beholder a requirement/desire to look twice, to interpretate, to participate.............
Last evening, I came across a paper by Phillippe Garner (2015) in L'Oeil de la Photographie about the work of Hans Breder, and here are a few phrases from the paper which I find helpful to describe the content of my provocation:
     ambiguity and interpretation
     teasing the viewers perceptions
     reality and illusion
     a two-dimensional riddle that challenges our eye and our reasoning.
I'd like you to relate these to this morning's five drawings posted below. I believe they apply.

The drawings are displayed in the order produced. 30 minute poses. Drawn on A1 220gsm cartridge paper. A graphite pencil in each hand mark-making simultaneously. Four layers of mark-making using hard, medium then soft graphite, the finally tonal mark-making using tinted charcoal caressed across the surface with a tissue or my finger. Towards the end I returned with an 8B graphite pencil to focus on a few points of emphasis.