I was reading through my notes to locate a comment made by Du Champ that i had remembered, which resonated with my feelings about ‘Insomnius ‘ .
Du Champ’s work entitled ‘The bride stripped bare by her bachelors ‘ was altered when its glass panels were cracked during transit, resulting in a spider web like set of fractures in the glass. Before this happened, he is reported to have been unhappy with the work,not quite knowing why so… The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even 1915-1923, Glass,foil, varnish, oil paint,wire.
His comment upon this happening is some thing to the effect of ” Now it is complete.. ” The work was affected by forces out of his control and changed.. This similarity of feeling/emotion, mirrors how i have felt about the ‘ Insomnius ‘ series.., though it has taken a slightly different journey we have both arrived at the same emotional conclusion . “Now it is complete………..”
Good old Du Champ.. he is one of my irreverential artistic heroes.
