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A mock up using newspaper. I thought that I could individualise these boxes by using photographs of the intended recipients.
Grease Alley, an industrial backwater neighborhood in a blade-runner/fifth-element genre. These shops back onto a trash and old parts-strewn gully, where the junk skiff comes by to pick up broken components, industrial leftovers, and the occasional "borrowed" part.
My drawing spot on the sidewalk across Calle Hostas from Meson de Bari. The sun was encroaching--time to finish up. July 15, 2012
Half completed items waiting for attention.
I had intended to spend the morning in the garden but a continuation of the recent heavy rain has caused a change of plan.
Stage three.
I've coated part of the canvas with gesso, mixed with some tea.
Thankfully the sun is still out, although there are ominous clouds.
I love the way that the shadows of the flower stems stand out against the background.
Caithness and Orkney are rich in Neolithic sites and the thing that struck me whilst looking at the rings and burial chambers is that these people were the ultimate mark makers.
One site, Maeshowe, which is the finest chambered tomb in North West Europe is just mind blowing. It is dated to around 5,000 years old and so it is older than the pyramids and Stonehenge.
The awesome thing about it is that later settlers, the Vikings, have covered the walls with runes which date from 1100, so you have evidence of two cultures of mark makers in one place.
This piece which is made from modelling paste on to hand made paper, with the addition of beach detritus, is my first tentative attempt at making marks.
For my next series of sampling I'm using unusual surfaces for stitch.
This is a foil crisp packet which has been ironed ( between two sheets of paper) and then overpainted with shimmering gold interference paint.
This is a closer look at the device that is on the other end of the system - it has a receiver radio and translates the signals from the buttons into something that the conputer recognizes as a usb keyboard. It is made using hardware and software from the VUSB toolkit.
it currently uses two arduinos as a sort of brute-force solution to a timing issue where both the keyboard software and the radio software expect to be the 300-pound gorilla. I talked to someone at MFNY this past weekend who might have a solution for this problem!
Here's where the painting was when I stopped working on it last night. Hoping to finish it today...that is if Aiden will let me ;)
It's a 6"x6" linen canvas. I'm really liking the feel of the linen as opposed to the cotton...plus it's less prep since I just put one layer of gesso on these as opposed to several on the cotton canvases to get a smoother base.
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Grease Alley, an industrial backwater neighborhood in a blade-runner/fifth-element genre. These shops back onto a trash and old parts-strewn gully, where the junk skiff comes by to pick up broken components, industrial leftovers, and the occasional "borrowed" part.
Close-up of new elbow layout. I like this change a LOT, it allows for full range of motion without looking too gangly.
Continuing thoughts about identity and a sense of self.
I looked at a mummy in Leeds museum at the weekend and it struck me that until you read the information attached to the artifact you are unable to attach a meaning to what you are seeing.... sex, age, status etc.
This is a sample piece using brown paper, stitch and gesso, and by unravelling part of the stitch I hope to suggest that the very stiff pose, which could mean a rather disciplined person, is in fact an illusion.
The piece is about 2 inches high.
From the kids bedroom.
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