I have been reading the book by Bernice Rose, Joseph Beuys and the Language of Drawing, she talks about Beuys thinking behind his drawings. The never ending practice he had of always, where ever he was in the world, instead of writing he would draw, articulate his immediate thoughts into scraps of paper, journals whatever was at hand to use at the time. Beuys has been quoted in the this book “Drawing is the first visible form in my work… the first visible thing of the form of the thought, the changing point from the invisible powers to the visible thing” As I read and look at Beuys images it is becoming clear to me that his intellect and cultural identity expanded far beyond what was evident in his travels and seminars. The vision of creating both the female form and the natural world are ever so prominent in these drawings. They are a form of inquiry like the stain on the page that then evolves in some half human half animal creature sporns my practice to take risks on the page let the pencil, ink flow and the mind will follow.