It feels like Spring today, and that always makes it easier for me to work for some reason. I always seem to be more productive during the Spring and the Summer. My aims for the next few days is to sort out my use of borders and layers in my work, to further look into my use of layering. I did some work last week, one looking like a grid, and one more like a collapsing grid. They didn’t seen related to each other until I looked at photos of them both on one sheet of paper. They use completely different techniques and materials but there is some relationship going on between the two of them. Something quite ordered and starting to crumble, and something complely falling to pieces. Both remind me of a broken cage or a skeleton/rib cage.
I managed to get to a couple of exhibitions over the last week. Danny Rolph at the Poppy Sebire gallery was good, I’ve been wanting to see those layered triplewall paintings for a while, and it was worth the visit. I also got to see Arshile Gorky at the Tate Modern, which was ace, especially seeing the development of the work through his career.
