Drawings before going to sleep

by José Quintanar 200 pages Offset 1 colour: silver + screen printed & die-cut cover 23 x 16.5 cm 1000 copies Co-published with Handshake 2026 While everyone sleeps, I sit down to draw at the kitchen table. The same routine for many years. Sometimes with music, other times in complete silence. I draw things that are close to me, everyday objects, but also things I have photographed throughout the day: details, buildings, tools, landscapes. It is a way of remembering what was lived and transferring it to the space of a sheet of paper. For several years I was interested in representing all of this through the line, understood as the primary unit of drawing. A bottle, nine lines. A landscape, sixteen. Drawing became a problem to be solved using a specific number of marks. Almost two years ago I began a new investigation: to stop thinking of drawing in terms of line and begin to think of it in terms of form. I also abandoned technical drawing instruments in favour of a more immediate way of drawing: a pencil, a sheet of paper, and the movement of the hand. The drawings gathered in this volume are the result of this process. What interests me lies not so much in the representation of reality as in the reality of representation, in the way the drawing is constructed.