Before I started the drawing “Lake,” I was envisioning similar images from “Floating Figures.” I wanted to draw one circular figure that fills the whole paper. Though when I had the basic wire lines transferred, I couldn’t find the connecting lines to make such a figure. What I only saw were the lines going across from left to right. It wasn’t easy to drop my original idea but I changed my plan and started connecting those horizontal lines. And they looked like mountain ridge.
When I came back to the drawing the next day, I was stuck with the bottom portion of my sketch. There were too many lines crowded and I couldn’t find the connecting lines to make a mountain ridge as easy as yesterday. It was like solving a puzzle. I just had to guess which lines won’t going to be needed and erased them and kept looking for connecting lines. And the next interesting marks formed a circular shape. It was a lake! In the middle of the mountains. Now it all finally made sense: there are mountains, a lake inside and streams coming down. It was like I left for a journey to find a lake if it were a real life.