(That’s spoken with an monotone eastern European accent.)
There has been talk of the individual approach to process and time management this week on the blog. It was addressed in a post from Tuesday.
Lately I’ve really been busted trying to manage my time in the studio. Its a drag with a capital g.
I work in a variety of ways. My monotypes, due to the nature of the medium, are produced rather quickly, in a matter of hours or less. Sometimes a painting will take but a relatively short time depending on the energy, the conceptual circumstances and how efficiently my subconscious is doing the thinking.
Other times, a piece or pieces will go through the whole “create and destroy and create” exercise and may take weeks or months to be realized. Here is an example of a painting I started a few weeks ago which has -and will – go through a metamorphosis as a dialogue of sorts. The conversation is all an adventure and will go through so many changes I may not quite know where it will end. The piece was started as a part of an ongoing series of paintings connected to the idea of the “purdah” and its related symbology and meanings.
I started it as a straight figure, but I unfortunately don’t have documentation from that first stage. Then I furiously worked into it.
a stage from a few weeks ago:
It wasn’t working for me; it was at a narrative and formal stage I wasn’t satisfied with. so I continued.
and another stage
Here it is staring at me now:
I wanted to push the form, the abstraction and the marks somewhere else. I’ll sit with this a little. it might be finished; I’ll keep you updated. Cause I know you care.
Riverfront Times photo.
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