The Drawing Marathon

“The evening proved fateful. Mr. Nickson showed us the pentimenti, the ghost traces left from an erasure, in a picture. He clearly admired the space they had created and the honesty they indicated. Mistakes were made. Mistakes were corrected. The word pentimenti, he explained, comes from the Italian world for repent. ‘If you make a mark you thought was honest and you find it wasn’t, then you repent, and the mark that’s left is a sign of your repentance.’”

June 20, 2012 · Marathons