The latest test piece is the one I am most excited about of all the testing this year but I know its in a really raw state. I was looking at it again today, there are little moments within the piece that really work, the way one word is a little see through and the underneath text is visible, these are the exciting places. As a way of working with text is it certainly interesting. Also, I don’t think it is a coincidence that is the first full on energetic test piece and quite different in tone and style to others. So there is something in it but its just a starting point. More and more I like the idea of do this on contemporary news, as a concept of compressed words I can easily defend it and if I can make it interesting to the viewer and catch a moment of contemporary time then I am doing something right. I have stapled 2 large free canvases to the wall and I want to push this idea further but this time, testing more ideas and making it more considered. I have started one from the ‘take a break’ mag. I have been using earlier but I also want to balance this with a more serious observational newspaper to see the difference in subject matter makes.
I have started on the first layer and developed little squares within the ground, using grids of sympathetic colours to the magazine, to give a representation of where the source material was lifted from. It is far too obvious to put the magazine title within the actual canvas.
As I leave it tonight it is still in its early stages. The text is so simply written. Short sentences and lots of she said this, and he said that. Not the most articulate of writing but this may actually help my case in parading the magazine and doing a similar style piece with a more highbrow content.
My tutorial is on friday so it would be quite nice to have testing this idea more by then to see if I am onto something here that needs refinement or whether there are other stronger ideas.
