Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas's dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly insistent, tangled and dusky. It may be around an elbow, a heel, an armpit, a calf muscle, the nape of a neck.

A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.

Where to start?
Everything cracks and shakes,
The air trembles with similes,
No one world's better than another;
the earth moans with metaphors.

unless you're the lead dog the view never changes...

mercy out does justice every time:
always find your way back home/