Friday, September 18, 2009
18/09/2009
contd.
The second reason for this is a little more complex. (but you must promise not to laugh). Paint is not a natural product in itself, it has been manipulated, coerced, and refined from mainly natural products, into the product that we know as paint. Artists' then, manipulate, coerce, and refine this paint, for their own creative expressions . What I am proposing, is to give the paint an opportunity to express itself, without the intervention of the quintessential artist. (You promised not to laugh !). You may well ask the question, is this actually possible? My answer to this would be absolutely yes. We live in a universe of unlimited possibilities; Einstein and many others since, have proved this fact. All that remains for us to do then is : KEEP AN OPEN MIND, and see what happens ! I hung several tubes of paint from the ceiling, along with a palette knife, and a couple of paint brushes, and took the lids off the paints. The rest, I leave up to the paint !!! This is a diachronic installation, so the phenomenon will be recorded over a period of time. (On an unsavoury note, when I came in this morning, someone had sabotaged the work; I have a witness who said the work was fine when they saw it earlier in the morning. It was all tangled up, and I had to take half of it down, and redo the work again. This is just not good enough, and I must say I am rather surprised that a fellow artist would interfere with someone elses work.) I am going to make a video of the paints and brushes "twirling", it should look good visually, like a kind of dance of sorts.
The second reason for this is a little more complex. (but you must promise not to laugh). Paint is not a natural product in itself, it has been manipulated, coerced, and refined from mainly natural products, into the product that we know as paint. Artists' then, manipulate, coerce, and refine this paint, for their own creative expressions . What I am proposing, is to give the paint an opportunity to express itself, without the intervention of the quintessential artist. (You promised not to laugh !). You may well ask the question, is this actually possible? My answer to this would be absolutely yes. We live in a universe of unlimited possibilities; Einstein and many others since, have proved this fact. All that remains for us to do then is : KEEP AN OPEN MIND, and see what happens ! I hung several tubes of paint from the ceiling, along with a palette knife, and a couple of paint brushes, and took the lids off the paints. The rest, I leave up to the paint !!! This is a diachronic installation, so the phenomenon will be recorded over a period of time. (On an unsavoury note, when I came in this morning, someone had sabotaged the work; I have a witness who said the work was fine when they saw it earlier in the morning. It was all tangled up, and I had to take half of it down, and redo the work again. This is just not good enough, and I must say I am rather surprised that a fellow artist would interfere with someone elses work.) I am going to make a video of the paints and brushes "twirling", it should look good visually, like a kind of dance of sorts.
17/09/2009
Had an interesting conversation with Peter Morgan this morning. He enquired as to what kind of work I wanted to do this year, I explained a couple of my ideas to him, and he seemed quite interested in them, which was encouraging.
As I am not going to be doing any painting this year (that's the plan anyway), I have decided to hang up my paints (literally !) More about this tomorrow.
As I am not going to be doing any painting this year (that's the plan anyway), I have decided to hang up my paints (literally !) More about this tomorrow.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
16/09/2009
We had a meeting with Mark O Kelly this mornin (Our year head) It went well; very informative, interesting, thought provoking, and quite discursive. Some of my colleagues and I, were quite impressed with what he had to say. We went to an artist talk afterwards, he seemed to be a nice enough fellow, and it was good to hear what kind of endeavours he was undertaking, but I have to say, I was not overly impressed with his work. (That's not to say it was not good, rather, not to my personal liking).
15/09/2009
We had a meeting today with the painting tutors; an overview of what we will be doing this year.Carried on reading for the thesis, as the inter library loan book is due back tomorrow.
Monday, September 14, 2009
14/09/2009
First day back after the hols. It is good to see all the lads again. Basically, it was just a matter of sorting out our studio spaces today. I am happy with my designated studio place. Continued reading for the thesis. I have veered off at a slightly different tangent to my original idea; now looking into museum informantics within cultural heritage institutions, nevertheless, it is a subject that, while not sounding the most exciting topic to be enquiring into, it is in it's own right, very interesting.
I have been researching different aspects of media marketing over the summer, and indeed, paid for a few different courses that were on offer regarding this subject. This is all part of my research for my work for this year.
I have been researching different aspects of media marketing over the summer, and indeed, paid for a few different courses that were on offer regarding this subject. This is all part of my research for my work for this year.
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