I’ve reached a stalemate in the work and am awaiting the next moment of inspiration… writing often brings it forward… focuses my mind… sharpens…
As I mould and sculpt the paint, it draws me away from the research and I feel myself becoming immersed in the craft of making… pulling and teasing the paint across the paper with my homemade brushes.
Process becomes consuming… I’m not really thinking of anything else except trying to shape the paint the way I want it… I live in the image…
I work from numbered grids, constructed prior to painting, that in their own right interest me as pieces of work, yet the relevance of that is lost whilst engaged in the treatment… they could be more interesting than the final painted image…
The work appears abstract, yet via App manipulation had life as a colour spectrum… it does relate back, but the animal sight links need further consideration as the work progresses… colours are already selected…
Deconstruction has taken place… this is the restructuring… the making something new recycling every last part of what previously existed… the “God” complex that every artist embodies…
Photons where suggested for research… the “God particle”… what are the links?
Light… no light, no colour?.. Radiation – alternative colour? Particles of light! Can we now break down/deconstruct light? – The colour spectrum?
A photon is usually denoted by the symbol y in physics… hv in chemistry… and less commonly hf… add that to DNA lettering… another “coded” image. Coding is used in computer programming… new links begin to form… more ideas… are there links between photons and DNA… similarities?
The photon is massless!… that could be a problem…
Radiation really interests me…
Photons? Pixels? Does either really exist? To what extent do conditions control how they appear? Exist?
A second line of research is also developing from another love of mine… macro photography that for me, deconstructs the visual world around me. But in this sense, deconstruct means sharpen… sharpens the world around me. In my work so far, pixilation blurs the edges of reality, but in this new sense, everything becomes hyper-magnified and defined…
My imagery is abstract at present in the sense that Joe Bloggs wouldn’t really get the spectrum pixel explanation… do I want the work to be abstract?… it makes itself… or do I want to start shaping it into more recognizable forms? Elena’s work focuses on clothing… not material… mine at present on the invisible…
Invisible – deconstruct… visible – reconstruct! Needs shape?
Already I have plans for the next image… different sized squares… less formal… loosening further…
…thank God the show isn’t until October…
