Five Minus One–More Old Art
From the Surface series:
Five Minus One
acrylic on panel with blue flocking
24 x 24 inches
I tend to gravitate toward verticals when I work so I was a little unsure about how this piece would work out. I half expected it to end in frustration. Surprisingly, it was fun and involved pretty much no struggle!
detail photos and more talk after the jump
One of the things that felt important to me when making this was the idea of including isolated forms floating within the composition–forms that would vary subtly in terms of size and shape, but would be very similar in overall appearance. I kept imagining the forms to be floating sort of like islands or bodies within the space of the picture plane, and I wanted the differences between their flat-ish, fuzzy flocked texture and the bumpy, raised translucent paint of the rest of the work to function as a defining characteristic that would separate the “characters” from the environment. I could say a whole lot more about this, and I did, but I deleted it because it was turning into that vague, flaky sort of opaque to anyone but the artist kind of crap that can be such a turn off. You’re welcome.
-Steph
June 6, 2009 at 8:59 am
I wonder what sort of ideas you get in the middle of making a piece, although I know it might be hard to articulate it verbally. Often times, to me, I find learning a new process to be like making a key, or lock-picking.
June 13, 2009 at 8:25 am
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