Richard:
Marching on to marketing? Ross and myself have decided to come up with an alternative name for our three-week appearance at Superclub this October. ‘This is meditative’ is very much about the collaborative investigations we have made so far. However, much like we have used an alternative name for our work being hung in the same room of the Abandoned house – we felt is was relevant to name this outing something more distinct, that is to make it more about an ‘instance’ in a series of ‘outings’ from the project rather than anything definitive for the project: the exhibition itself being anything but a conclusion.
The exhibition will be about supporting structures – wired in work to prop up the work of the other, hanging models, floor based paths/paintings/props and wall drawings as framing devices as well as drawings themselves. Fold out Fold in might a good one! Well, we have to decide.
For one thing I have an idea to produce a sculptural light work that I have had in the back of my mind for a while now. It will use a hanging plant structure with glass balls installed with low read light. The glass ball will then be depicted (or is already depicted I should add) with a zoomed in drawing pencil drawing that has spent the last ten months in a frame that is too small for it. It now has a lovely tarnished and folded property to it; these folds will give it purchase for a floor-based work, as it is not entirely flat. This sculpture will act as an avenue to Ross’s work and will set a context for the rest of the object based paintings and displays I have in mind.
One such object I plan to use Ross is something I picked up in a charity shop in Edinburgh over the weekend, a metal ornamental plate around five inches in diameter – it is adorned with a pattern of faded flowers and will sit well alongside the ‘burnt umber’ paintings I am already preparing.
So this is a wandering through what I am working on. A little sporadic and irregular – but it is safe to say and safe to admit that we have two months before the exhibition opens, and much of the decision process will end up happening on site.
Another note: I have received a package of Ross’s drawings and photocopies in the post. I have already started to decipher possible shapes to use in my own paintings and drawings.
Looking forward to the final pictures of Abandoned house Ross, and the inevitability of the work there being left to the elements to destroy itself or to be itself destroyed.
