Time to catch up with myself
Last week I was able to banish my thoughts of being in a mid-term slump. I was reading about Architecture and Disjunction and was reading about Labyrinths and how people get confused with things being not as they seem. For example, in a Labyrinth, there can be confusion between what is a doorway and what isn’t. How the mind creates illusions of things.
Looking back over my work from recent months, I thought it was about time that I played around with making perspective drawings based on my exisiting works. This seems to link back to what I was reading about the Labyrinth, as I was creating what seemed a mess of perspective lines accross became maze like and I found myself creating my own structures in my mind when looking at my work. My peers also said the same thing. There was a stage when things were all looking a bit too Julie Mehretu, so I perhaps should go easy on the colour. I was also introduced to Alexandra Road in a screening of ‘Utopia London’ at Chelsea last week. It is a long building/street in London somewhere, I’ll need to make a visit very soon as it could give me some interesting ideas for my work.
I was lucky to have the project space for one day yesterday, so I could try out different ways of displaying my work, following on from the interim show. I also booked out a projector to play with the back of my hanging work and to add some feelings of movement and passing time to my drawings. Most of the day was disasterous and everything I did looked terrible. I was overcomplicating everything. Once I pulled it back and went about things as I would a drawing and kept it more simple, the results were better and have opened up some interesting new possibilities. The more sucessful peices took place in the corners of the space. My idea for this came from the feelings of looking up at a structure that seems to go on forever, or of a building/road/room that goes on forever. I have a long way to go, and will quite possibly look back at this in a few weeks and cringe.
In other news, I will be showing some new work in the Aquire Gallery in Battersea Park next Tuesday and Wednesday. It’s all very last minute and at an odd time of the week, but it gives me an opportunity and also a bit of extra pressure to try something new based on what I have been doing over the last couple of weeks.
April 5th & 6th 11am – 6pmPrivate View Tuesday 5th April 6pm – 9pm
Aquire April 5th & 6th 11am – 6pm
Private View Tuesday 5th April 6pm – 9pm
Aquire Space
155 Battersea Park Road,
London,
SW8 4BU
