problems with painting
i’ve been trying to transfer my abstract drawings onto canvas. I just don’t feel happy with them. They are too rough to physical. They have too much of a physical presence. For me, they are object sculptures and seeing them this way, as objects means i can deal with them more easierly; it is a way in.
i don’t think it was always like this. Before the internet world paintings on canvas, to me, were a way into another world, had illusion had depth, now they are objects very physical. i don’t like the idea of hanging them on the wall, I’d rather lean them against the wall or put them on little stools and lean against the wall. Whereas the drawings on paper get closer to this scaleless void space of the world wide web. The marks on it create the nature of the space, but paintings on canvas are too physical – they are objects that i can act on, process on, have things done to, but i can’t play with their scale. Or at least i don’t think i can.
still want to make object paintings and feel much freer now to be able to do it.
it is also good as it means i can reflect on what bits from my diagrams i can investigate through the canvases.
