The grids are unfiltered, randomised brain dumps and rambling thoughts.
Disorder often stimulates us with new ideas and creative ways of doing things.
They are messy, and I feel like I should try to make some order from this, and so the process is chaos -> order.
Brian Eno has spoken about his use of cards (in music composition), containing instructions or rules, to help structure these rambling thoughts, and compose something interesting.
So I feel I should be structuring the grids into something more ordered.
Most of my grid drawings follow themes, and these repeat within grids.
To try to structure the grids I’ve come up with a colour coding system, so I use a different colour palette depending on the theme. This way a colour structure appears within the grids, and this becomes useful – and interesting – when many grids are displayed together, which is what I’m planning to do for the Clutter show.
Colour code:
- Trees & buildings – silver, grey, black, blue
- Concepts – gold, yellows, black, ochres
- People – red, pinks, black, purples
- Nature – green, light green, black, blue
- Slogans/ opinions – black, grey
- Politics – greys, blue
- Diaristic – greys
- Text – black, grey
- Textures – grey
- Body – reds
- Thoughts & feelings – yellow, grey
- Philosophy – brown & black
- Food and meals – black, grey
I also don’t think the grids are messy random journals, I think they are actually the finished work. I like to make one in a day, and so it’s a reflection or snapshot of that moment and my emotional state, and the things in my head. Finishing one gives me a sense of completeness.
So they work as individual items, but using this colour coding system, they can also work as part of a bigger structure, though in different ways to how they work individually.
