There are many different forms of meditation - for some it’s sitting cross-legged focusing on their breath, for others it’s going through various yoga sequences, but for artist John Franzen, his freehand illustrations are the perfect mind-clearing activity. For his series called Each Line One Breath he creates “morphogenetic freehand drawings.” Starting at the left of the page, he begins drawing a line with a black pen as straight as he can, but since he is only human the line is never ruler-straight. He then attempts to copy the line, with another one parallel to it, leaving just the tiniest bit of space, continuing this process all the way to the right edge of the paper. The imperfections get intensified with each line, creating waves that look almost three dimensional.
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