I continue to play with variations of grids, overlapping geometric shapes to create a sense of peering through. Within the constructed layers, lies a highly personal, subtle description of emotion.
This drawing is a symbol, made up by combining several quite separate images/fragments, with little regard for actual appearances but with much regard for the concept.
Working with pastel and charcoal…these soft materials give richness of tone and atmosphere, at the expense of crisp definition…working freely, allowing interesting, energetic mark-making to move around the work, not just crossing it. I don’t feel the lively marks cause loss of harmony because they have been carried from the foreground to the background, as well as from side to side.
I’m thinking about the presentation of the collagraph…should it be mounted as a triptych or should each piece be pinned to the wall individually and viewed as objects? ; Perhaps they would become lost.
It has been a most productive day at uni, with positive verbal feedback re my practical work.
The triptych explores the concept of being separate but related to each other in both form and colour. The elements that I am trying to describe have become involved in the actual process of making the printing plate…using materials that were bound for landfill…trying to capture the feeling of erosion and decay.
Christmas break over and back to Bangor on Wednesday. I’ve asked for a critique on my first day back, it’s unscheduled, but I feel I need some feedback, some constructive criticism re my work with light boxes. Sometimes I question if I should be working experimentally with my degree show looming, but there again I don’t work well in my comfort zone…my own worst enemy really.
