In a 1971 interview, Le Va commented: “Drawings are just different forms of presenting my ideas and which one I use depends on the kind and amount of information I want to convey. Drawings are usually plans for a specific work to be executed in a particular space, inside or out. Whereas I use photographs and notes as a means of gathering information which may or may not lead to a finished piece. I think that drawings reveal a lot about an artist’s method of thinking.” For Le Va, drawings work in the same way as musical scores or compositions, which equally ties in with the aspect of visual sound in his sculptural works. Glass tinkles when smashed, shots crack loudly, cleavers whoosh, whereas felt, on the other hand, is a soft, flexible, gentle material with a quiet sound, muffling and absorbing.
