How do I go big? Following the tutorial discussion with Jonathan. I have been meditating on what drawing larger could look like. In addition I found the same topic coming up in the MA session this week. We were discussing challenges to our practice. And again one of the points that came though is how I want to find ways to facilitate working larger now and after the MA.
What practical steps can I take to make it happen? Point that came up was to make the opportunities if I don’s seee them available. To approach people/companies/bodies and propose the projects, using the momentum from the MA and the show. Find ways to escalate things.
I keep on returning to the clay drawings, I like how they are connected to the earth, the ground, the natural world. In addition the work has a lower impact on the environment - which I am becoming more and more concerned about.
Why big? Why does it matter? In discussion with JK part of it was just like it felt as though it was time, a natural progression and desire of the work, permitting it to evolve. Also my preoccupation of materials and the work speaking
I’ve had fun making the tool for drawing, basically a giant icing bag - although that doesn’t sound so cool. However in thinking about my practice its intrinsic to the process and expression. I’ve mentioned before about ‘ritualised tools of passage’ - The improvisation and creation in response to the environment or absence of environment in the ‘Difference’. The liminal almost demands the generation of such items. From nothing comes something doesn’t addiquately expression it but falls in the right direction. The’ fertile emptines’. In folklaw often the protagonist returns from passage with a sacred item a hard won yenta times terrifying tool of significance and assiatance. For exmple The folk story of Bluebeard.
Perhaps this could explain the repeated motif of the paddle and the abstraction of the paddle form. The difficult yet fundamental protagonist. Or a more elusive and fluid character both benign and baneful and neutral.
WORDS:
Antagonist
Protagonist
Irritant