I think the red against the plain wood works really well, I am interested in how the piece would work if I changed the way it is displayed… turned over, upside down etc…
The second piece I posted doesn’t work at all for me, it feels too engineered, I have learnt this lesson many times lately… anything that I make spontaneously tends to work a lot better than anything too planned.
HOPEFULLY I WILL REMEMBER THIS IN FUTURE!
(In fact the small vinyl letters on the cardboard off cut in the corner of the picture is…as ever… more interesting to me than the ‘piece’ I photographed!)
I seem to work in a way that combines two different styles, coming up with a small part of an idea for the starting point (eg the red that I always saw in the bleak townscape) and then letting it change freely! I seem to be as interested in how I am working as I am the work I produce, I constantly question it and read about different artists to find where I sit.. Although I think finding where ‘I sit’ is an elusive thing that I probably wont find in a lifetime…. Maybe I will just have a much better idea of where my work can be placed and where I would like it to be placed.. and maybe that is enough?
