To determine: "To obtain knowledge or awareness of something not known before, as through observation or study."

"For me to draw something is to know something intimately. It is an attempt to understand the nature of things, starting with their texture: Their skin. I set up the forms in many layers of lines. The result is something that looks like an 19th-century etching, but they are in fact thousands of lines, meticulously drawn with an ordinary Bic-pen. Besides investigating forms and textures of objects and organisms, these drawings look for the tension between separate objects, intending to reveal an unnexpected underlying relationship between the elements."
                                                            chapter 2