As I am going through my systematic way of getting the canvas in front of me, pulling a word out of the bag, titling, dating and signing the back of each before painting and now setting a timer so the painting finishes at an arbitrary point. I have a part of my shed where I stick the picked words up and at the moment my shed is quite stuffed with bags of stuff to get rid of from the house, oh – and the Lost Library 1950’s wheelbarrow – that it is a good thing I am working small scale. (Business card sized). The balance of mess and (sometimes hyper) organisation is a delicate one with me and it’s working at the moment, but I will have to find a way to push more space out of my shed…also, I was working alongside a decent sized spider this evening, which made me uneasy, but it was ok.
With choosing the word to work with out of a stable of words and therefore choosing the title before painting, I have been wondering what effect it has on the outcome? I feel the word does influence the result, sometimes obviously and at others barely or maybe not at all. How could I possible find out?
It is now just over a fortnight since the last day of Lost Library – Border Country. I feel now I could have pared the performances down to the bare minimum of giving away of the text and the seedlings; the music could come into a separate part to the interpretation of the text into movement/dance with music inspired by the book.
