A Page from the #DrawingPapers Archive This page from Drawing Papers 80 features “What if I Could Draw a Bird that Could Change the World?”, an oil stick on paper drawing created by Kathleen Henderson in 2007. The 2008 exhibition, curated by Nina Katchadourian, featured the work of Viewing Program artist #KathleenHenderson. Using her chosen medium of oil stick on paper, the artist deployed a sparse, tense, and energetic line to make drawings that are at turns comic, perverse, poignant, and brutal. Henderson worked with the radio on, the sounds of talking pundits and news stories filtering through her onto the page where ambiguous scenarios offer playful or possibly sinister interactions. By offering disquieting representations of patterns of human behavior, her work asks us to consider our own complicity in and capacity for violence as well as benevolence. The Drawing Papers are a series of publications documenting The Drawing Center’s exhibitions and public programs and providing ...