This one used a lot of razorblading and sanding, as well as tearing and painting over the collaged elements:
Monday, April 5, 2010
Detour Posted: A Foray Into Public Art
I've spent the past week or so on a bit of a painting detour - making a couple of pieces to illustrate a proposal I submitted in response for a call for works designed to be installed on a construction fence. The paintings are on wood panels, and draw heavily upon the materials endemic to plywood construction fences: pasted, torn and stapled posters and notices:
The bird silhouettes, for example, are made of little stapled fragments of torn magazine and newsprint.
The paintings were fun to make, although the submission itself called for such low quality photos, that I am concerned they won't come accross properly. But on the plus side, I've become adept at making wheat paste.
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I really like the top one - can we get a close up shot of that texture? The bottom one I think is so close to being able to look like ripples in liquid that I am disappointed by its target resemblance, but I still like it overall.
ReplyDeleteI'll post close up shots soon - thanks for asking!
ReplyDeleteAs far as the bottom one goes, I was trying for an abstract sun with the concentric circles, but agree that it came out unfortunately resembling a target.
Was there a place to reference your blog in the application? Don't be shy, let them see how all your work collectively makes you awesome!
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