My battle with painting is still underway and I’m witnessing the graffiti reside of the student unrest here in Firenze filtering into my work. Stencilled iconography and cryptic messages are butting heads and slipping in behind paint runs and splashy streaks of colour. I’ll be leaving Firenze in a week so I have conceded to just work on one more painting, and even though I am just working in my tiny bedroom here I don’t know the next time I will have a space to get out my paints so I’m going to use the next few days to really experiment with this new medium: (after which I should probably give it time to dry before I roll it up and ship it back to the UK). Back to the UK, typing it just then made it seem real. Oh boy. I am going to miss this!
Still, I must admit, there are a lot of things in the UK to look forward to. I am currently in conversation with a London Gallery space as we’re in the early stages of organising an exhibition in the spring focused on the work produced in and inspired by my residency in Firenze, so I’ll keep you posted as that unfolds.
