ana aha's  Drawn conversations

In the late 1990s, while at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and at the Institute for Painting and Graphic in expanded pictorial space, students and artists gathered from all over the world spending long days together, exchanging ideas or techniques and learning from each other. What we couldn’t verbalize, particularly if we were at loss for a term in English or German - we drew.
My work table was always covered with white sheets of paper where our collective could gather to more easily express themselves with imagery. Two spoken words coupled with three drawn lines would somehow combine themselves into a cogent visual message, creating new meanings to open and advance the conversation between us, no matter our differing cultural backgrounds or languages.
We used Drawn Conversations of personal and poetic content between materials and ideas in order to make exchanges possible. This is one of the important concepts that historically informs the body of ANA AHA’s work.