Art From London Markets, a-n feature

So in the last few months I have been planning and working up to making some bigger pieces and the first piece was completed today.

In this piece the scale is significant as a reflection on commercial marketing and the interplay between the material object and its representation in the process of sale.

In additional I wanted to focus in on the way that international trade sits in an uncomfortable role in the history of food production both historically and in contemporary times in relation to slavery on the one hand and  secure food procurement and economic opportunities on the other, this relates to the materials used in making this work: cadmium hue and copper which have their own beauty and own poison and are intimately tied up in the importation of basic goods.

As I worked, moving it along, adding and subtracting colour, and images and gild to reach the final goal.  Things coming in and out and covered and recovered.  Getting started and staying focussed proved at times challenging.  But deadlines are good.

And having worked that big, I am thinking about the possibilities of even bigger…

And then Frankie sent me this link, and while I have a more English rather than Japanese work ethic, this is  a man making  art out of his life….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYN7p8dvr64