I’ve had some of my work displayed around the school recently and as always it’s interesting to see the work in a different space, and how each piece of work relates to the next. Some go together quite obviously, and others in more subtle and interesting ways.
This has led me into thinking what direction my work will take next. I have been taking apart older pieces of work and taking things apart. I am interested in things that have failed, or have broken or have fallen apart, and like things that look sorry for themselves. I like what Angela de la Cruz does with her work, but I’m more interested in things that have just failed through their own forces. I’ve taken a photo of a piece of work half torn from it’s stretcher, which contradicts what I’ve just written, but I find the patterns that the marks on the canvas make intriguing, the pictorial space has changed and the straight lines and grids clash in a different way to which they were originally painted. I was thinking about collapsing structures before, and straight bold lines becoming more liquid and falling into nothingness, and here I have collapsed these painted lines in a different way. I think I’ll play with this piece of work and it’s stretcher a little more and see what happens.
