drawing as a language of communication

I am interesting in researching the essential role of drawing as our first language of communication . I explore this through practice of drawing and making work. I see drawing as a very powerful process in art and design. Culturally drawing still provides a means of expressing the values and nature of a people. The first humans made images to document their history and as a means to retell their experiences and to fulfil a deep set need to describe and connect to the world around them. As a consequence of making an image most of us inadvertently reveal a personal imprint of ourselves. My own research shows that from the very beginning of their course, every student draws/makes descriptive marks in ways that are substantially different from that of their peers. My own observations and research builds on that conducted by Dr Sperry, Dr B Edwards at CAL TEC and Vilayanur S Ramachandran Fellow of All Souls, Oxford. Findings confirm that the act of making a drawing engages the mind in ways that reveal different and complex aspects of consciousness, social function, identity and expression. Picasso said: "Art is the lie that reveals the truth". Yet drawing has never been fully understood and the subject is not seen as particularly important. This project shows how drawing can be developed not just as a tool of self-expression, for a number of artists from different backgrounds. the work here is quite different but the drawing still remains an important carrier for mass communication. And for me I think it offers a is a strong counter to the globalising influence of impersonal corporate mass media.