How do you deal with the chaos?

The student Arooj asked me a tricky question: how do you draw? How do you deal with the noise? How do you make sense out of chaos?

She seemed concerned. This is not so easy, certainly. As she was drawing, she seemed also quite preoccupied. A sort of action drawing ensued. “this is the energy in the room” she said. A very green movement, erratic and lively.

Could you imaging doing something figurative? Not at the moment, she said. but then it happend. A face started to take form.