Fourth painted canvas completed.
Is this work really a painting?
Good food for thought here because as I continue to think on; I feel that there is a connection to sculpture in terms of working towards a physical size of a room and expressing a sense of proportion to it (as I discussed with Caroline). By working on multiple paintings, I feel that the display of the work is very important. For example, by placing the painted canvases in particular positions, a kind of construction is being created involving the room completely as a sense of sculpture. It is only then that the work can be said to be fully completed. I feel very excited for this as there is this sense of anticipation of how this work can turn out to be. I would like to quote the words of David Tremlett (Talking Art) which has this aspect of how the sculptor, by having been "forged" to analyse things in a set of manner, tend to think as such:
" I studied sculpture and therefore thought in a sculptural way. The difference in thinking between painters and sculptors is often a question of the physicality of things. You can sense sculptural thought and you can sense painterly thought. I would say there is a marked difference between the two..."
My concerns about space have always been a priority. I often like to project myself to the space where the artwork would be and I think there is a kind of wholeness that comes to it at the end; a "sense of belonging" to that space in time.
Another possibility is to involve the paintings in a performance. Just a thought... What if the audience was to be invited to participate to fill a blank gallery space? What if the audience was given the choice the responsibility of displaying the paintings in any way they would want to?
Some recent experiments/makings.
Is this work really a painting?
Good food for thought here because as I continue to think on; I feel that there is a connection to sculpture in terms of working towards a physical size of a room and expressing a sense of proportion to it (as I discussed with Caroline). By working on multiple paintings, I feel that the display of the work is very important. For example, by placing the painted canvases in particular positions, a kind of construction is being created involving the room completely as a sense of sculpture. It is only then that the work can be said to be fully completed. I feel very excited for this as there is this sense of anticipation of how this work can turn out to be. I would like to quote the words of David Tremlett (Talking Art) which has this aspect of how the sculptor, by having been "forged" to analyse things in a set of manner, tend to think as such:
" I studied sculpture and therefore thought in a sculptural way. The difference in thinking between painters and sculptors is often a question of the physicality of things. You can sense sculptural thought and you can sense painterly thought. I would say there is a marked difference between the two..."
My concerns about space have always been a priority. I often like to project myself to the space where the artwork would be and I think there is a kind of wholeness that comes to it at the end; a "sense of belonging" to that space in time.
Another possibility is to involve the paintings in a performance. Just a thought... What if the audience was to be invited to participate to fill a blank gallery space? What if the audience was given the choice the responsibility of displaying the paintings in any way they would want to?
Some recent experiments/makings.
1. I like my works to be linear and intuitive and I feel very comfortable with that.
2. I feel so inclined to work for details that I feel wary of techniques; I just want to move on quick and get to the level where I can work on the last part of the sculpture (here: another soap carving).
Nice question to think about.. While reading on Anish kapoor I was stuck by his response:
I think the human mind is complex as well as our thinking process and it is not always easy to understand what is going on.. in a way it is only what is inside that comes out (to copy the ideals of the Surrealists)...
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