DESIRE LINES
🚨 *NEW* in-person drawing course beginning 5/15
“Just as falling in love opens up new and unexpected possibilities that hardly coincide with what previously could be said to be lacking, desire creates its objects.” —Joshua Windsor, Desire Lines: Deleuze and Guattari on Molar Lines, Molecular Lines, and Lines of Flight
Desire Lines is The Pack’s new drawing course for artists looking to cultivate deeply satisfying studio habits.
In urban planning, desire lines are paths eroded by human and animal traffic. What begins as an off-the-beaten-path jaunt can become solid research into user experience and efficiency. As our feet hit the earth, our habitual preferences get embedded in the landscape. The more we walk a desired line, the more prominently it illustrates our behavior, our preferences, and our style.
Desire lines can also be tracked within an art practice. We may not always be aware of what we’re after, but the more consistently and desirously we work, the more uniquely patterns emerge.
In their book, Art and Fear, David Bayles and Ted Orland point out that "style is the natural consequence of habit”. It’s through repetition and consistency that we naturally appear recognizable.
In Desire Lines students will produce a series of drawings and a habit-based foundation for an ongoing drawing practice. Through creative repetition, experimentation, and desire-driven analysis, students will gain insight into their unique ways of seeing, making, and incrementally evolving in drawing. In addition to in-person lectures and studio time, this course functions as an accountability group with weekly peer feedback and individualized assignments. It is designed for beginner to advanced artists of all media who are looking to integrate drawing into their practice and everyday life.
05/15-07/24 [No class 7/3]
Wednesdays, 6-9PM EST
The Pack Studio: 526 W26th St. #807, New York, NY 10001
“An active line on a walk moving freely, without Goal. A walk for a walk’s sake.”
— Paul Klee, Pedagogical Sketchbook