I’m designing a book that’s an extension of my practice.

The title is Organic Matter and Decay because the feedback from the self-directed crit the other day was that the drawings referred to reclaimed and found things which says to me that the work has a link to environmental themes. I let the work determine the ‘theme’ of the book rather than imposing one which is something I have learnt in the curatorial practices module.

I looked at Giorgio Morandi’s work. He was an Italian painter and printmaker who was most famous for his still life paintings of bottles and vases found in his studio. He arranged the vases and bottles with considerations of shadows, colours, height and shapes made by the combined items.