Lower visibility
With several works in progress and none of them resolved, I find myself forgetting what has already been achieved and concerning myself with what hasn’t yet! Easily done, especially when these works in progress all live in different places: scattered around sunlit spaces in the house, lying out on the verandah and of course, in and around the studio. I am beginning to realise how vulnerable things are when left outside, even in this highly predictable climate. After a couple of disasters caused by freak gusts of wind which left smashed glass strewn across the studio courtyard I took a few things into the safety of my home. My partner is a sympathetic soul and treads carefully around the arrangements.
I begin a work this week using some high vis shirts and a plastic washing basket, all from the tip. Ever since I can remember, in my house, many of my friends’ houses and my family home, the washing basket overflows. I wanted something that, much like the puzzle, tends to be left alone for some time before tending to it. The washing basket stuffed with clothing seemed to be a good example. Packing my newly acquired baby blue number with dirty washing including the high vis clothing, I leave it out in the sun hoping that a stencil of the spokes and holes in hte basket will transfer onto the fluorescent fabric as the sun causes it to fade.
I like the idea of the shirt being an indication of somebody who is perhaps no longer around, yet has left traces of their former presence. I will return to this work soon, although I have a feeling this is a ‘long haul’ piece so to speak, as the fabric will probably fade at a much slower rate than the paper I’ve been using.
