In the studio searching for connections in abstract imagery…
As I investigate the contemporary approach to drawing, I am searching for connections in the abstract imagery created through my drawing processes. In order to ‘make sense’/find significance in these marks on a page, I’m using colour. Pareidolias is still one of the main discourses involved in my work.
Currently, opposite colours (‘complimentary colours’) are being used to connect all the elements on the paper…
After creating objects and leaving their memory on paper (drawing with bubbles), I apply the watercolour washes. What I am wanting to do is present the colours that connect to each other. For example, I have used red and green and black. When red and green are mixed together it creates black. The same concept applies to other opposites such as yellow and purple, and blue and orange. When they are mixed, it creates black, forming a connection through the piece.
I am enjoying the vibrancy of the work and want to push this idea of searching for connections in abstract imagery. The more I search for meaning, the more I find out about the medium of drawing and questioning when my drawings will be considered paintings.
**Pareidolia – The phenomena of searching for significance in sound and imagery, i.e – seeing images in clouds.
