Drawing Breath

“I believe in the power of creativity. I believe that you must first know the rules before you can break them. I believe that artists that become complacent are at risk of failing themselves as much as the viewers.”

Mark Rebennack

We are curating a works on paper collection for Osborne Clarke, exploring how creativity – something so unique to mankind – is starting to investigate the interplay of the digital and the human.

Our searching has brought to Long Beach, California, where Mark Rebennack creates stirring and meditative abstract drawings and prints. His Exhale drawing series evolved during a difficult period battling a creative block and insomnia. Through daily running, cycling and meditation he began to heal, leading him to his first attempts to “draw the breath.” Each freehand line – both technical and emotional -is conducted for the length of one exhale and mimics the previous line. Beginning with the straightest freehand line possible, wave-like forms begin to take shape as minor imperfections become increasingly exaggerated and exposed.

In this work we explore human accuracy as an aesthetic quality