I am delving into my personal space, exploring memory and the past, transforming them into my work; the nature of interpretation, subjective versus objective truth. I am re-imagining something, possibly transforming it somewhat, but it remains strongly connected to its source.
The world and life as it appears on the outside and the world that we inhabit in our minds…the spaces are different, and often don’t coincide at all.
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.
