“… every sanction of his art grows from the terms of its own creation.
What this means in actual practice emerges from a simple point that the artist himself has made over and over again: he draws. And after he draws, he animates, reproduces, and transforms each drawing. His task is not simply to represent, detail, or delineate the facts of suffering: rather, he draws from such a content as surely as clear water is drawn by patience from a dark well, or as pain is drawn away from the body by healing.
… His method is urgent, but he will not skip a step. Every drawing is a gesture against the ready-made, simultaneous, and quickly consumed facility of photographic imagery.
He reveals how drawing is a hermeneutic advance upon photography’s mode of representation, just as history writing is a hermeneutic advance upon the random details of mere chroniclism.
The most obvious fact of drawing – that it unfolds in time and records that unfolding – acquires a profound significance here as a counter narrative, an alternative speed, another opportunity to examine experience in a context in which violence has obliterated the possibilities of perspective and hence made the view of history unbearable.”
Teater Tikus 