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Caleb Lewis
My name is Caleb and I currently live in Yorkshire, England. My pictures are exclusively rendered in pen and ink using small dots to create the image.
Persistent Echo by Caleb LewisARTXV
As a child...
I spent a period in hospital. I felt like a vessel carrying a million fragments of a former self, some of which were pieced together like parts of a jigsaw, but those pieces themselves adrift from the larger whole. I have been trying to rearrange myself back ever since.
Much later in life...
I was diagnosed with autism. Like anyone, I've had a share of high turbulence running a thread through my days. I felt misshapen, and would be angry at myself that I couldn't yield to the shape of the world with no control over any area of my life when I discovered stippling during a doodling accident.
Stippling...
helps to dissipate my nervous energy. The concentration required helps quieten internal noise, and generates a liberating equilibrium. It's an activity I feel I can reach my potential in free of impairment. A panacea fuelled by compulsion, and an antidote to weather the storms.
If an idea comes to mind...
I usually scrawl the initial concept on a napkin, receipt, or whatever is to hand to capture the essence and feeling. I don't limit the piece from being what it wishes to be. Where it leads, I follow, and let it decide what the final evolution will present as.
Caleb's Traces by Caleb LewisARTXV
Whatever the subject or narrative of the piece...
a separate visual language defines space, peace, simplicity, and a quiet stillness without compression or claustrophobia. These qualities are lacking elsewhere in my life, and I find drawing them helps put them there.
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