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Eternal Draft: 

A drawing exercise that makes evident how we become strangers to ourselves over time.

Til We Get There.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
FELT.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
I Remember.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
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Lose Love Loss Pt 1.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
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Complete Doom.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
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IOTA.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
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This Not This.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
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Lose Love Loss Pt 2.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
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Wishes Pt 2.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
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Someone I Knew.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
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Clearly Oh Well.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
Wishes Pt 1.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
Chainlink.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
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I'M BEAT.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
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Shooten Across.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
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I Sometimes Convince.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
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KEWEL.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
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Wink Wink.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
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Watching Alien3.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
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You'll Know When We Get There.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
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Damn Sad.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
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SINK.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
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I Got Away But I Don't Know What From.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
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Previously Undone.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
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TRE-ZY.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
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This Drive.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
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Good Paper Pt 1.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
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Lose Love Loss Pt 3.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
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O-NOH.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
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Some Kind of Loss.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
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Have You Seen My Demons.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
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Remembrance.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
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How Much.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
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Unchainlink.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
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Universe Edge.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
Projectionist.  Mixed Media on Paper.  15"x11".
In 2019, this body of work was shown in "Eternal Draft" at The Brown Gallery, Duke University, Durham, NC.
notes on Eternal Draft:
Nine drawings, completed by Tedd Anderson in 2006 while pursuing a BFA in Painting, sat in portfolios for over a decade.  Time proceeded to rob relevance from these works.  While becoming mementos, these drawings plagued Tedd.  They were drawn on luscious, 300lb watercolor paper - a resource that could not simply be recycled.  The drawings were simultaneously unshowable and precious in their natural resources.  In a desperate measure, Tedd quartered each composition and began reworking them.  These shattered compositions became Eternal Draft.  In these works, Tedd enters a timewarp where he collaborates with his 21 year old self; a task that makes evident how we can become strangers to ourselves over time.
An example of the process:
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The original drawing from 2006, above, was quartered and reworked to create the four drawings to the right.
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