Pipe Bowl c. 1937

This drawing shows Carl Keksi’s carved Pipe Bowl, and it’s all about the process of making. I wonder, how does this artist resolve to sit down and draw the object that he has made? The pipe bowl emerges through the labor of carving. The artist’s hands must’ve been really busy. I can imagine the feeling of the artist when he completed the bowl; and then the need to sit down and draw it - to work out how to represent what had just been made! It makes me think about the relationship of drawing to sculpture, and the ways that sculptors have, over the centuries, made drawings *after* the object is already made. I feel a deep connection to other artist's work and their conversations across time. Art is an ongoing conversation and exchange of ideas, inspiring creativity.