Skukum

Skukum (2020) is a pen and ink drawing created immediately after returning from a geology field program. The piece is infused by the memory of extreme physical experiences (intense cold and winds, crashing sounds of the constant rockfalls, burning legs, sore back) endured in the surroundings if this exclusively mineral, rugged, remote and beautiful Yukon landmark. Mount Skukum also host many historic mining and exploration sites, and a mine was in production intermittently during the past century. The creative process behind this drawing was almost as tedious as hiking across the moraine. Individual rocks were drawn with a nib pen, cross-hatching the shades, a drawing technique inspired from inked linework in comics. The piece was finished by applying variably diluted ink to the different plans in order to create depth and perspective. There is a voluntary counter-intuitive use of pale and darker tones, opposite to classical landscape representations, to simulate the troubling, overwhelming feeling one may experience in this remote place.
 
Print sizes available:
18x24"
 
Professionally printed on Velvet Fine Uncoated Art Paper 19mil.