The work with the layered drawing,board, mirror and canvas was a result of moving things around in my studio, the drawing had been in my space for quite a while and I could never quite decide what I should do with it… I started grouping things together in the space and these worked really well together.
I liked how the colours worked together and the intentional strip of mirror allows the spectator to see themselves… but forces them to position themselves and look harder at it.
What does the spectator bring to the work?
I created the white painting with an interest in how its perceived plainess could be a catalyst for the spectator to think more, exploring their own ideas…
Attempting to provide less indicators and instead some sort of reflection of the viewer… What happens when there is minimal information.. however in doing this I realised that their is always quite a lot of information, creating a work (even if it isn’t very colourful) consists of a series of decisions …. as does the position of the work (ie the wall, the floor etc) … This realisation made me evaluate my understanding of making art which can only be a good thing!
I have begun to explore the use of text in my work, thoughts are constant and writing is something that I do daily… it seemed strange that it hadn’t made it into my work before.
I am finding it very difficult and asking myself lots of questions…
How will people read it? Why would you choose to use text in visual art? Would it be an interesting idea to include text..that you can’t read?
