How to look at a drawing

A drawing comes into view. As you walk slowly and attentively closer to it, what does it reveal to you? At each step nearer, do you see more? Are you engaged at still another level? Do you learn more? At what distance does the drawing fail? At what distance does it seem to lose its vitality or integrity? One measure of a successful drawing is that this never happens. Nose to the image, there’s still more to discover.