I think I started the new year in a bit of a panic, thinking that I had to finish stuff and start lots of new stuff and finish that off, all immediately. I don’t know why, but I’m pretty sure that is why I have been second guessing everything I’ve been doing and over-complicating things. I am tempted to almost start again with my work and try to forget what I’ve been doing for these last few months.
I spent the end of last week looking back at a painting I did on a large canvas a short while back. I took two shapes from this and used this as a starting point for a new piece, so I have some large floaty pigment marks on some see through canvas. I feel the need to keep it simple. I like the way that an older piece of work has directly informed something new, but this now seems to have little to do with what my work is about. I think I just need to put my ideas to the back of my head for a week or two and just make stuff, and then I can begin to piece it all back together.
I was working quite small for a while too, and I think that was a bad move. Everything was looking a bit stale and samey. This happened before though, and it’s almost as if going through this process is echoed in my ideas, which is about movement through layers.
