Artist research- William Kentridge

South African artist William Kentridge produces works that exist somewhere between film, drawing and theater and sometimes as a combination of all three. Kentridge's drawings and stop-motion videos often have a subtle but reflectively political undertone, investigating the cultural dualities of South Africa and the artist's birth city of Johannesburg. Using the reductive medium of charcoal with only a small amount of blue or red chalk, Kentridge is effectively able to portray narratives while allowing the drawing process to be revealed by erasing and redrawing the object on the same sheet of paper.

I saw one of his works in project drawing last year and was very impressed with the drawing style and the technique of 'rubbing back'. I like drawing with charcoal as he does but think the computer or some other digital medium could be interesting with new implications, new possibilities not to mention the speed with which you can create something, which is always a factor :).