As I enjoy a couple of weeks uninterrupted work in the studio, part of me, even whilst loving the physical act of painting, is thinking that painting is the wrong answer, slow, out dated, redundant.
The companion photographs to accompany this series of paintings – weird and disturbing little vignettes – are quick, slick and seductive to make and view.
I had been considering showing the photos as small ‘labels’ to the paintings but now I think they could be enlarged to the same 1m x 1m proportions as the paintings and be hung as diptychs. This of course is an expensive proposition, especially when you include printing and framing the photographs.
I am as a rule, uncomfortable with seeking funding for my projects, believing rather, that if at all possible artists should pay for their own production costs. An unpopular notion I am sure; but I do recognise that for certain projects it is the only way to get things made or produced and this may be one of those times.
[In the time between writing this and deciding on the images to post with it, my mind wondered up to the idea of making this a purely photgraphic project. On the face of it this seems like a straightforward solution to my unease, but there is something about the paintings, about painting that won’t let go.]
More thinking time required….
