OBJECT SKETCHES
Garé,
along with Carl, often drove to locations where she could make
quick idea sketches and rough memory jottings, which she would
later use in her studio as inspiration for her paintings. In fact,
if you look closely you will find that many of the underlying
sketches were later developed further and brought together to
form finished paintings!
The sub-pages show a fraction of some of Garé's initial and very
raw sketches, and they are all presented totally unedited. This
means that most of them are filled with smears and erasures. The
quality of the sketches are also depending on other factors;
Garé used different types of drawing paper, cardboard, and
tissue, as well as a variety of drawing materials such as soft
and hard pencils as well as crayons and the occasional ballpoint
pens. Furthermore, she often sketched her motifs very tiny (down
to the size of a postage stamp!) as fillers between the 'real'
sketches, all of which makes it extremely difficult to reproduce
them in a usable fashion. And if this is not enough, time itself
has left its traces in the form of deterioration of both paper
and pencil strokes.
Therefore the overall technical quality of the sketches are
invariably extremely diverse, but the important thing has been to
try to convey some understanding on how Garé perceived her
potential motifs and perhaps some of her underlying thoughts.