Literal and Metaphorical use of Colour and Space Cont.
Picking up from the last post… I plan to now paint a piece that deals with space in a different way, and to do that my process has to be changed from, you guessed it, the literal to the metaphorical.
I started out by experimenting with different compositions and particular thing I wanted to introduce into my paintings.
Unlike my more literal paintings this painting can be more aesthetically varied since I am not looking to achieve and illusion of space upon a surface. This therefore meant experimenting. I started by drawing a few on paper and then in my sketchbook, and then took the ideas I found and put them on board.
I had absolutely no prerequisite in terms of what I wanted it to ‘look’ like, just that I wanted the painting to trigger some sort of questioning between our relationship between space (the entity in which everything exists) and colour (the thing that allows everything to be realised)
Since the two are interconnected I wanted to have some sort of link between the two on the canvas. As is clear from the images I experimented with a few extremely different ways of doings this.
Untitled (the very bottom image) is the one I have hung in the exhibition. I think the reason I decided to paint something like this, as opposed to any of the others, is because of the way the whole of the painting is interconnected. The grey rectangle cut out from the coloured stripes clashing with the background colour is one of the key points of they interact with one another.
