A Page from the #DrawingPapers Archive This page from Drawing Papers 45 features a detail of “Picture”, a gouache on paper drawing that spanned 42 by 408 inches created by #MargaretHonda in 2003. The 2004 exhibition Transfer Pictures was Los Angeles-based Honda’s first New York City solo museum exhibition. The exhibition focused on a series of site-specific drawings that connected the natural sciences and the visual arts to the workings of memory and loss. In “Picture”, a drawing of her beloved dog Scooter made through the use of stencils, chronicles the relationship between memory and experience. Honda carefully sliced, arranged, and taped together the sections of photographs that were not her dog – such as the background, the edges of the photographic paper – to create outlines of the dog. On the page, the variant of her dog transforms into a kaleidoscopic or Rorschach-like shape, the negative spaces of which Honda fills in with three shades of black gouache, creating a velvety matt...