Daily Drawings is Cathy Braasch’s series of durational works on paper in ink and graphite. Braasch constructs each image by adding one layer per weekday over the course of a month. Together, these drawings become a personal, graphic record of time, experience, and perception, rendered with deliberateness and happenstance alike.
Conceptually, the drawings operate simultaneously across three interconnected scales. First, the personal experience — a meditative ritual that accepts the variations and incongruities of daily life and is a receptacle for memory. Then, imagined as architectural studies — the accumulation of simple geometries generating complexity. Finally, at the scale of the city — a reflection of the inspiring, incremental development of the built environment and the productive qualities that arise from this growth. The work encourages the appreciation not only of the outcomes but also of the experience of creative production.