I have started work on my last series before university hand in next week. I have a series of 6 A3 size mdf hardboard frames which I have made up. I want to move the work forward again, this time listening to the viewer feedback that the text is the hot area I should be working with. So I will be stripping everything back to its bear essentials and just doing black and white text paintings. I will add a little colour here and there to make the work sing and enrich the painterly surface so ideally the ground needs to be really exciting and the text fit into the picture plane. So that is my challenge, I have bought a sander which comes with 3 different levels of sand paper so tomorrow is all about experimentation as to depths of sandpaper results and working back into the painting, building up layer and layer upon each process.
The photo about is just the text printed and laid out over the frames. What is interesting is that these can be read as a whole narrative or singularly. This will lead to potential playfulness with their presentation. Depending on the positioning it will lead to a different narrative.
We had our group student lead crits today about hand-in and positioning of work. As I have been working in the darkroom the works for assessment would not be presented in their best way so I need to see what I can get when the spaces are given out. It is good to think about this now and just present the best of the work from this semester.
I should also mention the 6 strap lines I have chosen. Its a thin line between story telling, satire and cheese. So it was challenging to chose the right headlines. I want them to be intriguing, open and self empowering. In the end I decided it really didn’t matter that much so I got a good mix of content. Also testing short text statements and longer ones. I will see what is more effective in the finished works.
