As it is January 1st and I am trying to begin the year purposfully especially with regard to making art. I am now typing this and posting the last few images.
The project is in the final stages leading up to the two exhibitions in February & March. A preliminary poster has been circulated and the participants have been paired up. Now it is back to Angela & myself exchanging envelopes. I have a large brown package from her ready to open but only after this post is done.
Suprise here as this time Bev has made collages that hint at stories instead of being pure colour & shape.
Also two images from Nigel & Estella that are A3 … (the guidelines are A4) .. but they arrived folded up and so can get away with it.
Yet again it has proved difficult to stick to our self imposed deadlines for keeping this blog going. However the pictures I have now gathered together are from the final envelopes sent out where everyone received identical collections of collage materials. The feed back has continued to be unanimously positive proving that it has been well worth the effort. It never fails to be interesting seeing how different artists react to the contents and what they make of them. The real assessment of the impact of making the collages will be the exhibition that brings it all together.
Here I have loaded up the remaining pieces of work.
The new envelopes have been posted and the participants paired up to go on working in twos until the exhibition in February.
There is something very satisfying about cutting or tearing up old work. One idea I was working on was pinned up for weeks waiting for inspiration on how to take it forward. The inspiration never came. In destroying it – I am free of it and one of the random pieces has already led to new work. The moral here is obvious …
I should have torn it up sooner.
Angela & I had a long conversation yesterday about the project. Now we have an exhibition in sight we need to structure the final stage. We discussed what had come out of it so far and what had changed now that there were more artists involved.
First it made more work.
Second neither of us had been able to give the attention to it we felt it needed.
Third – one participant returned the last envelope unopened as it didn’t spark any inspiration.
So in all it seemed to have lost some of the momentum we had at the beginning when it was just the two of us.Our resolution now is to pair up the participants and see what results. We will ask them to each make two more collages before Christmas & then we will put together the exhibition.
