Perhaps a bit pretentious to call it a 'genre' but within the context of the range of themes, issues engaged with, and what I might call types of responses to poses, then this drawing is representative of a particular process which I frequently find I have entered into.
Some characteristics, not in any particlar order, are:
a) two opposing views of the same pose are included and they address and confront each other perhaps with a degree of intimacy,
b) there is a space within and space beyond,
c) the history of the making of the drawing is retained in that early fine lines from my two-handed explorations pave the way for later selective mark-making decisioning,
d) my 'anagram' process brings into the composition other parts of the body and places them in an ambiguous juxtaposition with the more obvious main pose(s),
e) events within the main event appear such as the journey the eye will find itself taking as it moves through the collection of hands and feet which have come together in the lower part of the drawing,
f) overlap, superimposition, transparency, together with ambiguity, all contribute to a pleasing 'spatial' activity which embraces something of a 'cubist' philosophy.
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