I now have 5 large paintings on the go. I am trying to understand them, trying to figure out why I put certain things here and there. I’m becoming less and less interested in mark-making, and certainly don’t want to slip into the old scribbling to be expressive mindset as I don’t think that will benefit me at the moment. Everything is staying quite controlled, although it doesn’t always look like it. I’ve mentioned before that my friend has said that my work has become colder and more devoid of emotion than it once was, and I was kind of trying to get my work away from that, but as I decided with my last post, that I am to let my work lead me, then devoid of emotion and cold is fine if that’s where my work wants to take me.
I’ve been thinking about repitition, shapes, fragmentation of these shapes. Everything that I’m doing is informing the next thing that I do. I’m also constantly thinking about existence and different realities/dimensions, I think that is due to me working in with different layers. Birth and death and then the possibilities of rebirth are on my mind whilst I’m going about my business too, that was something that I was thinking about when I was a student.
