Paintings from photographs
April 17th, 2011
Till now
April 6th, 2011
I need to write something here—
My drawing and painting are close again. Seeing what I’m showing in this post is the opposite of satisfying. Their similarity to each other, and the noticing that these shapes I drew as asides are not that anymore, worries me. I feel like I’m relying on them; like they, and their silly ‘tense’ compositions are a style.
I started the school-year with the multi-page drawing up top (finished, it had another piece of white paper collaged on to the left of the one depicted). It felt fresh, and like something of a glossary, or chart of possibilities. Above it (out of the photo) are similar shapes in string, reaching round the top of my studio walls.
They’re up here, now. Filed away. Tomorrow there will be no straight lines.
The start of the second video (Batman (Magic)) makes me smile.
I’ve finished photographing a box of lost property I found in a skip. I’m very much looking forward to making a series of posts about the contents on that near-abandoned other blog of mine.
Ta-ta, Ha Noi
February 22nd, 2011Happy new year
February 3rd, 2011More from the front
February 2nd, 2011All from the period that may well come to be known as the pre-bún chả-era.
The colour in the ‘Stairwell’ video is not as amazing as the preview image suggests. It’s the first video I’ve made in something of a monotone, I believe, and I’m quite pleased by the balance of light and dark.
I have, also, been drawing a lot, and unsuccessfully trying to make some music. More on those things later.
January 20th
January 23rd, 2011I am in Hanoi
January 19th, 2011Five views of a mural
January 8th, 2011
Variable dimensions
December 30th, 2010
It seems that whenever my drawing and painting are getting closer together they shoot off in other directions again.
Drawings, like these, are all I’ve been doing since Christmas. Constructing them is a fairly logical process. I think of them as three-dimensional objects, and by connecting each point they become credible, even though they may give the illusion of impossibility. I like the play between two, and three, dimensions, and how the freehand drawing adds to that. I had the thought to make them in a 3-D modelling program, but I think they would lose a lot. Animating them (again, freehand) is something I want to try.
I’m curious to hear if anyone else reads them as 3-D, because, so far, no one else does! Perhaps I’ve spent too much time playing old-ish videogames.
These are, of course, related to the forms I’ve used in installation, and collage.
Gathering Intelligence
December 5th, 2010I have three paintings from my Revision series in a group exhibition at Brunswick Arts. The show, Gathering Intelligence, runs until this Tuesday Friday, and includes works in several mediums.