Christmas post!
I haven’t talked much about my work yet, so i’m gonna do a bit of that.
So my practice looks at the relationships between poetry and painting; poetics and aesthetics. For me, its to better understand the two practices themselves and overall to try and understand where they both sit in the world. I find that they have many similar formal elements and historical contexts to enjoy and relish in.
Through my practice I look at the relationship by using experimental projects such as “One Mark, One Breath” to look at one aspect of the relationship. “One Mark, One Breath” came out of dry executions of a line drawing method by Lee Ufan, so I created an antitheses where I had no control, and could only lay out instructions, and hope people would follow them; through this I learnt about the aspect of collaboration, and the need of risk or chance in my work.
My current line of inquiry is focusing on black as a poetic and painterly device. The reason I look at black comes from a couple of colour field paintings that looked at using simple aesthetics and through the title, deeper poetics(“Whichever Way You Look at it There’s Always A Horizon” & “Which Way to the Beach”); But they didnt work, they were just abit cerebral and dull. So im reading up on black, painting it and what it means and going to see where the work takes me. First thing that came as a success from this was “Untitled (Black painting)” it has three months of different paintings within it, before being covered in different black paints, but interestingly alot of the former paintings came through, and I really enjoyed the almost nostalgic residues that were left.
