I have no idea what to title this
Thank you, WordPress for deleting my original version of this post by logging me out inexplicably for no reason. That was really awesome of you and if you were in front of me in personified form I totally wouldn’t brain you with my 3 hole punch.
Anyways, as I already mentioned at length to nobody but the electrons in my monitor, it’s hard for me to come with names for most of my abstract work. If there is a clear defining trait to describe it, then I’m good, but in cases like this, where the shape I’m using doesn’t have a technical name (as far as I know, and I’ve looked), so anything I come up with is pretty unwieldy. So far its stuck at “Nested Double Semi-Circle Squares,” which is just a smidge better than the latin “Duo Semi-Orbis Quadrangle”. If anybody else has a suggestion, I’m all ears.
“Nested Double Semi-Circle Squares,” 18″ x 18″ Paint on Paper, Collaged. (This is for sale if anybody’s interested.)
Detail and explanation of the process after the jump
This piece is something of a glimpse of things to come. I made this pattern to collage with other patterns I made with my Pazzle machine to create an effect similar to this. But I liked how it looked and decided to let it be it’s own piece as well.
The individual pieces are made of paintings I did on bristol, as well some more excerpts from Ullyses (my copy was falling apart so I put it to better use) and a Supertramp album cover (from the vinyl). The orange parts are actually the inside liner of the record sleeve.
Here’s the detail:
Maybe I should just name these like they name hurricanes? I don’t know.
-JD
June 30, 2009 at 12:25 pm
I have no idea why–but ‘water birds’ came to miind–perhaps because of shapes and the motion they suggest and there being so many of them–like a flock of birds…dunno if that’s any help to you at all—PLEASE NOT the Three hole punch!!!—but as someone passing through and responding that’s my half cent.
June 30, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Quadfest. 4
June 30, 2009 at 12:38 pm
There are 4 legs on each shape, lots of them like a festival. Voilla quadfest.
Its your work this is only an idea
June 30, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Another title suggestion, Ullyses Abridged.
June 30, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Thanks for the input, everyone! Maybe I’ll just use all of these with a never ending list of sub headings “Waterbird: Nested Quadfest: Ullyses Abridged: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.”
June 30, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Somebody gave me the idea to call something like this “Tesselated Palimpsest,” though I think that may be a stretch of the term palimpsest…
July 1, 2009 at 12:58 am
I don’t care what you call it. I like it. One of my favorite artists simply numbered his pieces (Biederman.) You know…like that dirty joke about the chinese couple who owned a restaurant…where the long-neglected wife can’t sleep after a long day… turns to her husband and says: “I want a sixty-nine!” To which her clueless husband – still wound up from work retorted: “Why you want Beef and Broccori now?”
July 1, 2009 at 5:46 pm
i often name my paintings very random things- some are after people i am friends with or involved with. some are names after songs. do you ever name your paintings randomly or do you feel like their name should always reflect the formal qualities or idea behind the artwork?
July 1, 2009 at 7:59 pm
if the piece strikes a specificcord every time I see it i’ll name it that. otherwise I try to describe it in an almost taxonomological (is that the wod im thinking of?) way. otherwse their is a damn good chence i’ll forge the clever random title I come up with. #s don’t work because I always lose count and I don’t know whether to assign them when I start or finish the piece- if I start ‘piece 1′ then start and finish pieces 2 and 3, then decide 1 wasn’t viable and don’t finish it, do I name the next piece 1? if I number them as I finish them, what do I call them while working on them?
in my sketchbook I often write about the progress of pieces and as often as not I employ symbols instead of titles or description. but as the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as prince can attest symbols are problematic. in my head, I just see the pieces themselves, which is why this is an issue in the first place.
still, sometimes I think id prefer to go the random name route and will come up with a few phrases to apply to things when I need them. but when the moment comes I don’t feel it and don’t go through with it. ultimately I envy toni’s ability to transate an impression into a phrase. but as verbose as I can be- even about art- the sense of the art I make can’t be tied into a symbolic name.
ultimately im just bad with names
July 2, 2009 at 7:40 am
erm…i just make shit up. shh. don’t tell anyone ok?
July 22, 2009 at 12:53 am
call it “pinwheels”
July 22, 2009 at 1:07 am
oh, and the word is “taxonomically” but those twelve dollar words get so expensive.