For the past Four months or so I have been working on my newest series of work. Originally I had planned a series I had been wanting to produce, called 'War'. However my intentions for these pieces were rather large scale and the gallery space I have is slightly limited. After trying to paint one piece on the smaller side, I had to quickly paint over it.
Then began what I discovered an abstracted image that resembled a structure, or a temple, or what have you. . . These abstracts consumed me for some time, while reading various philosophy books, online sites and random quotes from searches. ( I prefer not name drop anything that I reference in my work. I prefer to find information staggered and mix it together, not bothering with names, I try rather hard to ignore who the writing is from. I like things more to be knowledge that has accumulated and my observation and my own take on the matter is the end result). As the months drew on and I became more focused on world happenings, things it seems that I have been bitching about for years are finally blowing up into the headlines. This began to influence some of the later works in this series.
This series, by the way, which I have titled, " Misplaced Faith in Gravity", a comment on our mass stupidity as a society, a comment on how once we learn something, that it becomes the over all absolute of the universe. In my opinion, nothing is absolute and there is no way we can possibly, really know anything. Not for sure anyway. Possibilities always exist. While doing this work, even, they have found a possibility that Einstein's Theory of the Speed of Light could be wrong, finding neutrinos speeding faster than light. . .
If they claim this has been a misunderstanding, I will only further believe humans can not stand to learn change, or the idea that they are wrong.
Anyway.
During this Time of working on this series, finding ways to frame and mount the work itself has been consuming and has kept my mind racing many nights. I did not want it to be the same as my last series of work and I did not want it to just be traditional.... and certainly not lame.
I have been searching for mediums, elements and material that I can use.
I actually found inspiration at the store Anthroplogie, of all places... I once worked there as their visual display artist, creating their seasonal displays with found or unusual things and what not... when in the store again, I saw a few displays that really were unique and individual... it is funny when ideas can come to you at the most random times. However, I think it was not all that strange that it was there... it merely reminded me of how to think further for structural ideas.
And there we go.
Ive steered away from found wood (Not all completely) this time around, as it can be too warped and bent to stretch the piece properly. Found wood works well I've found adding character and a slight design element that works really well.
I have started using only three bars to stretch three sides. leaving the bottom part of the canvas to be stretched in a different way. or adding elements onto of the piece to add to the design.
I began using pieces of canvas that were scrapped from trimming these pieces and older pieces into the structure and design work of the last piece, which has turned out decent.
