Gridiron c. 1939

Salvatore Borrazzo made this drawing of a gridiron. It's like he was trying to figure something out, right? Trying to capture the weight of the metal, the way the light catches on those bars. I get this feeling that Borrazzo was interested in how things are put together, not just what they look like on the surface. I'm thinking about the way he’s rendered the texture, like he really felt the grittiness of the iron. Maybe he was thinking about all the meals that would be cooked on it, the smoke and the fire, the stories around the table. It reminds me of some of the drawings I did when I was first starting out, trying to understand form and space. When you really look at something, when you really try to draw it, you start to see it in a whole new way. You start to see the world differently.