[FCT: TOUCH]
Brief: Once you have created a series of translations, lay them out and evaluate; looking for any possible dialogues emerging between them, or identifying any techniques that you want to explore further in the following exercises. Extract between two and three pieces and consider them to be your initial material library to reference in the following stage.
TOOTHBRUSH – SCREW – UPSIDE DOWN HORSE
Exploring the use of material representation to create techniques offers up more possibilities for painting practice. Noting their effect leads to a greater resource of mark making, and also a purpose behind those marks. Less happy accidents and more intelligence driven actions.
Perhaps the easier way to say it is it increases the narrative behind abstract mark making.
The following ‘Drawing’ although abstract in nature bears more narrative because of its origins.
The studies (translations) that lead to this piece are very resolute.
Since the 1.1 Project ‘Voice’ I have been increasingly interested in the dialogue between techniques and materials. And how their connection adds agency to the story behind a piece of work.
RAW / DRAPE / TORN + EXPOSED
The layers in the rock that I took the initial rubbings from sit like ripples on the surface, but they are evidence of a deeper archaeology.
The landslide is an act of natural effect x mans impact on the environment. Im not looking to make a statement about human environmental impact. Our presence is established. What interests me in that wider argument is the part we play rather than the precept.
We have an intrinsic pursuit of invention and exploration, and there is a subsequent conflict that arises with those achievements.
By documenting connections to nature or environment by electing rubbings from an area of a landslide. Using artistic dialogue to represent an event, hopefully creates an awareness, or conversation that leads to a positive reset.
Creating work like this gives me a chance to turn away and just exist amongst the milieu.
It sounds passive, but silent observation initiates rousing thoughts that lead to the next rotation of analysis and engagement.