So there’s a definite start and finish,” he says. “Then, I started to draw furniture to make them like little rooms and on top of that is a maze. Roosen started the large doodle by drawing 3,800 one-centimeter square boxes in the maze. And so when I started to do the drawing, I thought, ‘wouldn’t it be great to make a maze, similar to what maybe one floor of that location would be like.’” Roosen’s take on the former Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong is now on display at Alderney Landing in Dartmouth, N.S.Ī post shared by Bruce Roosen was called the city of darkness because there was really no laws enforced and no rule of order or anything. I almost have to hold my breath - it was like a deep breath in, hold my breath, draw the line, breathe out - and so by the nature it became a meditative process for me to do that.”Īnd his latest creation is really turning heads. “The lines and the details on them are so fine and particular that I had to control my breathing. Many of Roosen’s doodles are highly detailed, requiring a unique technique. “If I stop with a pen and paper, I lose focus and I start thinking about grocery lists and all those other things.” Now in meetings - in my IT occupation, it pays the bills - is if I’m doodling,” he says. “Really, I’ve been doing it my whole life, it really is the only way that I can actually concentrate. He has notebooks filled with doodles dating back 20 years. “I work in the IT industry it’s somewhat of a stressful occupation sometimes and I found that doodling and using pen to paper was a way for me to relax and be able to take my mind away from things.” “It’s more of a mechanism for relaxation that I use,” Roosen says. His impressive doodles require a steady hand, although the Nova Scotia man doesn’t call himself an artist.
Do you ever find your mind wandering in a meeting or a phone call and pass the time by doodling?
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