I’m considering the surfaces I’m painting on more carefully, the meanings they may bring by their previous use/purpose and what could be read by them.
I’m currently working on carrier bags and so my painting on them is a form of re-use, I’m giving some cultural signals about where I have shopped at some point. Something else that occurs to me is the value or lack of that is ascribed to these carriers. A contrast to painting on canvas or watercolour paper.
I’m considering:
How does this change the work?
Why use carrier bags?
Now what?
