Happy Memorial Day - I made a small drawing to celebrate human exploration on Mars. It is called A Hand In The Sand. 8 x 11 in - pen and ink on board, 2021 / by Mirena Rhee

Drawing is one of the oldest ways of expression for humankind, from cave paintings to scripts on clay tablets to hieroglyphs to the ideas of Leonardo and the drawings of skyscrapers.

Human beings have expressed ideas through drawings since the dawn of time.

In the world of ideas, everything is possible and this drawing is an expression of that possibility.

The hand is set in soil of tiny squiggles and they're even a few rocks there.

I use a technique of drawing that is one of the oldest used - it goes back to the reed pens of 400 BC.

The different types of crosshatching express natural versus man-made, or to be more precise, machine-assisted.

Entropy vs order.

A Hand In The Sand.

8 x 11 in - pen and ink on board, 2021