The follow up meeting with my mentor
was on 13.4.12. My intentions behind the body of work discussed were to push
boundaries, experiment and create new directions.
In Paper 2 I looked at the artists
Louise Bourgeois and Marlene Dumas:
Influence of Louise Bourgeois – materials: stitching, hair,
fur, beeswax, 3-D objects, human bumps
Influence of Marlene Dumas –
layering of paint, layering of paper
Elements in my work:
-Circles – Mandalas – scratching to
next layer.
-Collages – layer photos of paintings
over paintings and “fabrics”
-Object (bucket) – Jungian – collective unconscious
– hidden – murky – corporeal – references to the body.
-“fabrics” – Me: “creating a ground that
is fertile”.
Layers:
“There are two types of layers: superficial, which fulfill viewers
within the first few minutes… or others that reward viewers for sitting,
looking and watching – to get into the painting… Is it important that the
viewers get that or is it important that you get that?... How do you accomplish
more (complex) layers? Salvador
Dali … Photoshop … you could create a Window through a window (transparent layers
on canvas)...”
Decorative mark making:
“One feel's a sense of legitimacy by repeating the act of cliché”
My work:
RL: “colours are becoming too
decorative … too obstructive … tone the palette down. “Skin” fabrics more
successful … pink skin tone … it can layer back to more human skin … slight
colour variations … focus on the viscosity of colour.”
RL: “turning a human being into a
wash-bucket is a beautiful thing”
RL: “ Your work is dark, psychological, emotional not pretty and
pristine… you may have trouble showcasing these… art should be a vehicle to
look at things that are not visually appetising… the privilege of being an
artist is being an outcast”
RL: “What if you did a human bucket… and a cat bucket… different
shaped buckets… different sized buckets… building your own bucket”
RL: “By using a plastic bucket you are using an industrial form… it has been created for a
function. If it’s not about that function…construct your own bucket… maybe your
bucket has a bump… you could construct a tray at the bottom to contain water…
think of them as vessels carrying the substance which you are trying to talk
about”.
RL: “in this land of exploration, you
are learning a lot… if you find something make sure you don’t lose it.”
Artist to look up:
Possible mentor for next
semester:
Raymond Prucher at AUD
Plan
Finish big pool
Head with hair – in shallow pool
Film – read ‘Jung a Feminist
Revision’ by Susan Rowland – layer images
Next semester – installation with
different elements of the work
For our next meeting
complete pool with hair/fur,
stitching, mod roc seams
layered photos – take further
4 vessels – don’t have to big
RL: “Let them [vessels] breathe as individual objects.” “It still
allows you to cut and stitch but do so quietly.” “ [Human skin fabric] use pink
or white stitching that we can barely see and it will be very evocative”.
RL on relating the buckets to the videos: “what do the four
videos look like as the four buckets?” “the buckets don’t have to be used –
they can just supply the structure”. “What kind of vessels would four
archetypes be?”. “You need to understand your own femininity and what it is.”
Ideas
Premier – film layers. Filling
bucket with water and creating a layer(s).
Veiled woman series – veils =
layers. Feminine – openings – portals.
Tufts of hair punched through the
canvas rather than glued on.
Window through window (transparent
layers on canvas) - like Salvador Dali Madonna 1985
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| my layered "bucket" |
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| Veiling the "Veiled Woman" |
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| scratch mandala |
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| Salvador Dali "Madonna" 1958 |
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| My mentor pointed out that my markings, tears and scratches should be more "natural" and obsessive like Sea's (my cat) |
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