CORY LEVY art 

Drawings are an archive of weight fluctuations concentrated at the end of a mark-making utensil, pencil, pen, stick, etc. When I trace over graphite in black ink this language becomes more legible to the naked eye. Even the faintest strokes are evaluated under a magnifying glass and re-defined as graphic symbols. Line thickness is not necessarily a gauge of pressure. A blunt graphite contact point will always create comparatively thicker strokes than a fine tip when applied at equal intensities. A heavy hand carves into paper, leaving an unbroken valley in its wake. Light lines, on the contrary, graze only the apex of paper bumps and define a string of textural patterns.