Prepared some frames recently to display these cup things in.
Have been advised by a couple of people that perhaps less cups in the frames is better than cramming as many as I can in.
So as well as thinking about the amount that will go in, I need to think about the colour arrangement. For the auction, I made a couple that had a cool and warm tonal composition and I think perhaps this is the way I will go for the show.
The reason I’ve decided to put these in the show at all is because I know that they’re quite visually striking pieces, they’re decorative, whereas the other works which will be around the corner to these are not and this contrast is quite refreshing. I also like the strong impact of them in a smaller space, the frame, rather than having them cover a whole wall. I kind of feel that they sum up the the context of the larger pieces that will be around the corner from them, but in a more aesthetically pleasing way. They are not paintings but objects, but in comparison to the wooden painted boards, these display their objectness by containing individual pockets of paint, instead of a monochrome surface. Although they look vastly different, their relationship to the other works are intrinsically linked, they are trying to say exactly the same thing.
I have tried some various compositions; light and dark, warm and cool, as well as random, which I haven’t photographed, but which doesn’t work anyway.
I’ve added some pictures here of the various ways I could display them.
I’ve also tried a variety of amount of cups in total in each frame.
As you can see, on some I’ve filled the entire frame, which I think is far too much. It’s too busy and distracting, and I think takes away from the individual differences between each one.
Although I don’t think that the “Dark” variety works at all, I do quite like the “Light” one with 8 cups. I am intending to have three frames in total, two are rectangular and the third a more or less square, so I could use the cool, warm, cool composition, or try a cool, warm, light display.
