A lot appears to have opnened over the last few months. Summer holidays were great but need to get a job next year. Did no painting whatsoever ...persuading myslef that this is due to intense activity during term.....not so sure. Anyway, back to college with a bang. Shall try and recount as best I can.
INSTALLATION - the word that strikes fear into the heart of any old skeptic like me.
The smart-arse idea (my speciality) of hanging unrelated objects from the ceiling backfired big time in that all I ended up with is a few discrete objects with no relationship to each other. I produced a few bits and pieces of some of the items as they dangled trying to inject some life in them with limited success.....and more importantly ....being pretty representational....not good, in this place at least.
Guitar strings made from barbed-wire with spot of blood. Looks better in real-life ...but not much.
In a similar vein I connected the broken string on the guitar neck with the twin towers 'event'. The painting is supposed to be two guitar necks with a broken string implying something is wrong. The perspective is similar to many of the views of the twin towers on that fateful day as the planes crashed in.
At this point started to try and go abstract.......1st ...a very twee attempt...
When you are in it , making it...you look at it closely and see some naturally occurring interesting patches. However on reflection afterwards it is vaccuous with no intent or purpose...jus chance.
Tried manipulating ink on a piece of blue floor insulation .
Some success but vey difficult to work with and though you can get marvellous ink suspended in H2O effects and gloss ....the fading and drying process diminishes the appearane dramatically. Will come back to this later on. layering and abstraction qualities ...very good.
Decided to concentrate on the broken string / tension as a concept rather than a representation or total abstract form. Tried to capture physical feeling of tension by bending wooden dowl rods coming out of a flat planar surface. Dont have a good photo of this in its finished state hanging on the wall....but you get the idea below.
Broke 2 rods trying to squeeze into drilled holes in mdf board painted black. (wetting them first is apparently the thing to do) Anyway....painted the rods in increasing warmth of temperature from end to centre and placed image of hot element underneath to implay intense heat and imminent possible rupture. Beautiful but dangerous....sweet and sour.
Next blog for what happened next!
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