2021.03.12 • Work in progress Drawing has always been my inner narrative vocabulary since I have hold a pen in my hand. I was about two years old. At that time of my life, I saw my dad paint and draw for him self quite often. Doing just so for his own pleasure. Growing up in Geneva, I sensed his infinite pleasure doing art with his heart, only during his little free time. Painting was somehow his mind liberation. When I was child, he was still a watchmaker working around the clock in the swiss industry to sustain his new family that was growing. Financial responsibility, has a father, a spouse shared with my mam as a housewife. Basic low middle class family. A surround sort of happiness I recon. Though, the income as a watchmaker was low, life was good. My brother was just born two and a half years after me and life was spanning in the 70's. My dad taught me practically nothing about the little he knew of painting or drawing, but I observed. I stand by him. I just draw and draw. My own little inner world. I was a day dreamer all along my childhood. I recorded things in my mind : atmospheres and sounds, sightseeings, sceneries. And I draw. I have loved that calmness my dad had in his heart while painting. So in that matter, he was a sort of pride I wanted to match since I was 4 years old. I probably sensed this hidden artistic path he never really had the courage to take for granted. His return from his 4 years living in New-York in-between 1965 and 1969 was still hugely imprinted in his heart. Blessing memories for him. The best time of his life, has he always told me. That is where he learned photography, super 8 film, painting. I surely always saw that painting he made of N-Y hanging in our home. That was freedom for him. Then, when the pressure of the family had him caught in a corner, I never really saw him paint or draw ever again. Lost dream I guess. I am a dad of three boys now, and I see fatherhood as an openess to open masculine vulnerabilities and learn from it. It is a narrative Art form. • • 2021 • Art work by #sebastienguenot • #imaginarydrawing #blackandwhiteart #dessincontemporain #artsurpapier #artonpaper #contemporarydrawing (at Romainmôtier) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMUNKZTBXk0/?igshid=mfdyese1fv2b












