By creating works that seemed to transcend my thoughts, I began to look at artists like Linn Meyers (who I mentioned earlier in this blog) and an artist called August Ventimiglia, he has created a number of works where the completion is determined by the materials rather than by the artist himself… the work is complete when the materials cannot take any more and begin to disintegrate.
This idea kind of stuck with me and I explored creating some ink drawings on paper, I was interested in this new way of creating a drawing where the end point was completely determined by a force outside of myself.
I allowed myself different amounts of time and created circles over and over again until the paper fell apart and then could take no more ink. These pieces where created as experiments but I later displayed them on my studio wall and I feel that in some way they are more important than I gave them credit for, they mark a transition point where my inspiration for and understanding of what I can create expanded greatly.
