Why draw? at Vukutu

Why do we draw?

Here is a first list of reasons for drawing:

To observe
To record some real phenomenon, such as a scene or a person’s face
To play
To explore, to follow a line
To think
To capture some essence of an object being drawn
To become one with the object being drawn
To communicate something, for example, an emotion, a mental state, an idea, a thought, an inference, . . .
To express some prior internal emotion or mental state
To express some internal emotion or mental state concurrent with drawing, something that arises in the act of drawing
To invoke some emotion in the drawing
To provoke some emotion or mental state in the viewer of the drawing
To inspire viewers to action, as, for example, in political posters or satirical cartoons
To achieve some internal emotion or mental state by drawing - for instance, to seek to become calm, to seek to enter a trance, to seek to be in the moment
To better know oneself
To seek mastery of the skills and arts of drawing, to train oneself in these arts, to undertake a practice (in the Zen sense of that word)
To pray
To pass the time.

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