Studio11 - 

Year 1 : Term 3

Movement, Speed, Thought and Space

 May-June 2011- Thinking Through Practice Module : 


Painting 1 : Beginning the process and a record of the ongoing evolution of work.


Stage 1 


This project has been about exploring the notion of being in one place at one time but also of being in many other places or dimensions at that same time. It is about multiple perspectives and I have used the analogy of a car journey to help describe this evolutionary process of thought through the practice of 2 and 3 dimensional art to explore the theme. 

The idea that has propelled the project forward is about driving forward at great speed  when in reality one is sitting still. You look ahead of you to where you are going, you get there and then it is past. You can see the moment in the future, experience it in the present and then you see it in the rear view mirror when it is past. I am driving east, through the dusk into the dark night, leaving behind the west and the bright red setting sun where I long to be and my rear view mirror is witness to this. Its about looking backwards and driving forwards and vice versa.

Thinking through practice module has been about the process of trying to capture a sense of these multiple perspectives, movement, speed, thought and space in one piece of work and I think example no 4 is the closest of all the  experiments that highlights these elements. It reflects a fusion of the two large paintings in a 3 dimensional form and attempts to conciliate the spacial and material differences between my notions of MSTS.The over riding theme which has developed its own evolutionary process has been stimulated by all the preceding actions and each work or phase has been informed by the previous one and the first.


STAGE 1.
As a material resource I decided to use 3 abstract paintings from a previous module creating work form an inspiring newspaper story and used it  as a springboard for this new thinking through practice project. I cut out the shapes that made up the work and placed them on the wall with blue tack. I kept changing the layout thus creating new pieces of work everyday that were fleeting and momentary. I then laid them jigsaw like onto a large piece of wall hung fabriano and drew around them. 


I found myself thinking about this work and previous work during my car journey to and from college. I began to snap photos through the rear view and side mirrors. Many of these thoughts which range from Hawkins Slave ship to Picasso's dying bull Matador can be found in abstract gestures within the diagram