doing modified word document tables for an email international drawing project that seems light hearted and open enough for me to not worry about how my work might ‘fit’ or not.
connecting them to mondrian – white ground
my work floats on the white surface, i mean it doesn’t go to the edges. mondrian’s black lines often used to end before the edge of the canvas.
i like it idea of totalities
Mondrian’s paintings are ‘finished’ static, complete. i like the broken line, work in progress, it has an energy about it.
reading more about mondrian’s late works, where it started to use tape and flat coloured peices of paper
i’m also interested in his change from black lines to coloured lines at the end of life. to me this transistion out of europe into asia has made me reconsidered my northern europe protestant aesthetic. it feels like mondrian also felt that he had the freedom to enjoy colour more once he was in new york.
in the work today i want to try to bring mondrian to the work but also maintain a seeming function purpose to the lines corrections and editis. the idea of admin or work into the drawings. I don’t want there to be specific meanings or things symbolised, i want any signs or symbols to float between representing something and their pure formalist values. though they do do something even without representing or labeling, they indicate difference, demark areas or zones.
anyway to work
