Imagined Bundle

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There was a pleasure in the process of making the drawing, a simplicity to the rules, regularity and consistency that pleased some deeper part of my brain. I’ve returned to the drawing and still like it which is a good sign and want to make more - I feel like has something more to say. The drawings stand as preparation for more sculpture, a way of understanding and creating.

It also falls into the enquiries I’m currently connecting with ‘constituent parts’ and ‘everything is divisible’. Real and imagined. A physical wrangling with the ideas I’m wrestling with.

I’d like to go larger more obsessive in the repetition.

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Key wOrds///

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Key words from drawing and researching today, in no specific order///

Burnt sugar

Bundle

Wad

Banding

Strap

Steps (descend ascend)

Return>>>

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I feel like making large format drawings in oil. Large greasy drawings, I desire to see thick black and sepia marks commanding the paper.

Portraiture

I still really enjoy making drawings. I feel guilty as though I am old fashioned stuck in craft, but I find making marks, making certain drawings so satisfying. The feel it has, the presence it carries. I worry as it feels as though there is no concept, idea or thought in the work. Just self indulgence and showing off. That there isn’t really a place for it in contemporary art. Is representational art over.

What is the purpose of portraiture today? Where does the thinking and conceptual value lie? Observation? Deep observation of an individual.

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Bundles

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Note: The blog doesn’t have to be journalistically written. It’s too self conscious, lacks honesty as it’s more performative. It can be notes, lists, images. A subconscious free flow is perhaps better. I have also included a bad photo and resisted the temptation to edit too much.

Bundles today I like bundling objects - multiples. I want bundles of all sorts of things.

Plaster dipped burnt wood. Pelican feathers. Sculpt a pelican in hard plaster?

It was good to get my hands on materials - finally collecting some copper and wicks. The materials tease me. Just their presence goads next to create, something anything.

I’m conscious that I want this blog to be written in a much more analytical and academic fashion, with pithy insight and formal art history references. But I will leave it at… today I like bundles and materials.

Re Image/// The place of drawing. I love these organic and diagramming drawings. They feel like they have such a strong place in art/ artists process.

Image from: Theaster Gates P112

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