A3 sketchbook spread. Two pages, two registers.
Left: Gustav, charcoal. Open gesture, arms extended, head tilted back. Decompression.
Right: Andrea, from photographic reference. Cropped shoulder, bent limb, rectilinear dark shadow. Compression.
The pairing was not planned as a statement (it is the accident of sequential pages in a working sketchbook). And yet. Each page resolves on its own; the pairing opens a reading that neither demands alone. Having been thinking through work for the Eve Song exhibition, the formal structure of the spread permits a feminist-informed reading without insisting on one.
Life Drawing Randburg, session FF: The Body Teaches the Hand, 29 March 2026 (Gustav); photographic reference from session E3: Roles Circulate, 22 November 2025 (Andrea).
The idea of drawing the second half of a spread from reference, searching my archive of photographs for a resonance with what the live session produced, is something I think I want to more consciously explore in future. It could become a kind of methodology: the session yields a gesture, the archive answers it.