Untitled: Dance (still)

Studio: Experiments

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Continuing to experiment with the applications of various traditional mediums to the paper surface.

Studio: Experiments

Studio: Smaller Residue

Experimenting with smaller scale, continuations of ghostly geometric structures.

Studio: Residue Experiments

 

Sketchbook: Residue experiments

Residue

Residue explores the juxtaposition of contained gestures within geometric abstract forms. Unlike previous monochromatic works, grey the mediator is employed as a medium as well as a surface. 

The photograph above is the first complete series within this ongoing project. 

Studio: Residue Grey

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Studio: Residue A0

Development has started on increasing the scale of the Residue series, as seen above. However, I found I had to adapt my methodology of creating such works to fit a larger scale. This resulted in forming a pool of grey pastel remains upon the studio floor.

Sketchbook: Residue Grey

 

Grey. Grey just has a clear-cut character, it does not unleash emotions or associations, grey is really neither visible nor invisible. Grey is, by virtue if its neutrality, so eminently suited to act as a mediator, to clarify, just as illustionistically as a photograph. And it is better than any other colour for clarifying 'nothingness'.

 - Gerhard Richter, Fundamental Painting, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 25th April - 22nd June 1975

The above quote by Richter maybe true when it comes to the act of painting however, this truth maybe not lend itself to the act of drawing. There are two such occasions within the 'Residue' series where grey refuses to sit in the confines that Richter has decided to place it in. Firstly emotions are highlighted by gestural act, the movement of the pastel upon a surface. Secondly 'nothingness' is depicted by the paper of which grey lays upon.