About
LUCID is a collection of digital sketches that slowly collected at the edges of work projects, cloud folders and old hard drives.
Physical sketches – the paper and pencil kind – are easy to keep track of. Fill sketchbook, shelve. They exist in time, they age with you, fading as the context of their creation fades. After a while they are points in the fog; a series cairns for an interior path you didn't know you were following.
Those transitions through decay are both inherent to the form and profoundly valuable. On my shelf at home are perhaps thirty "real" sketchbooks (a few of which you can see here) and each one dated on the inside cover and full of the stuff of my life at that time.
Digital sketches are the reverse. Fresh, bright, separate from time. They are frustratingly without context. "Shelving" a digital sketch either means throwing it in some dark corner of the hard drive or (more likely) deciding it isn't worth keeping at all and deleting it.
Enter LUCID. In the name of preserving these drawings, I've given them a new context, following the model of William Steig's delightful series of adult-oriented books such as Strutters and Fretters and About People which will soon be turned in to an actual you-can-buy-it-and-hold-it book.
More soon.