Drawing With Words is a workshop that examines the relationship of observation to writing. 

Hosted at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn NY

Even a basic experience of life drawing exposes the need for a different kind of ‘looking’ to translate three dimensions into two. This course considers how such a perceptual shift might be applicable to writing. With creative exercises, readings, and analysis we engage with writing as a multidimensional process aimed at providing insights about the mind and our relationship to the world/reality. 

Not a critique course, nor a course about narrative structure or style. The workshop was aimed at generating a discussion about writing, and developing a practice that is less painful, more generative and more insightful. Participants were asked to write daily throughout the duration of the course, but observation exercises also include drawing, walking, listening, improvisation and close collaboration with others. Readings were drawn from fiction, essays, philosophy, art, performance, and various mystical traditions.