Pen and ink doodles

So here are the seeds of what would turn into the work in the following years. Most of these doodles were created in 1970 or 1971 in a sketchbook using a 0 or 00 point Rapidograph technical pen. Similar to “automatic writing”, this was “automatic drawing”. I had no idea what was going to happen and just let the pen move. If I got an ink blob, which happened often, I just turned it into something. It was fun, and I’m sure if anything it was therapeutic.