One day making. I wanted a break and some spontaneous no stress activity. These are all about three hours' work from different soaps that I found at home. I wanted to "connect" with something to change my mood and I really enjoyed the activity.
Looking back, I can totally understand the undertone of such an activity. It is primarily a projection of a state of mind. Here the abstract visual language that I am engrossed in is present in a different form; informing me of my own making:the actions, the rhythms, decisions, the changes, the compression and the reading of new information. I am reminded of the commentary of the art historian Jack Flam when describing Henri Matisse's Goldfish and Palette: “The whole of reality appears to be compressed within this mysteriously shifting space." Though totally different in context, this is totally true of my own making which is forever linked with an ensemble of compressed marks and signs.
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