Residency in Itoshima
WORKS – 1
From day one, ideas come flowing in with senses overloaded with new visuals and textures, it’s time to get them out before they vaporise
First works
Reed Pattern day 2
ANCIENT Golden Maps – Gaiea
Possible
PinkHouse
Base Baller 2
Knob-end Thai Stick
What is CONCERTINA ?
It’s my take on extending an image by concertina-ing the slices of an original image, creating a folded image of multi-reflection.
The Sequence
Original
The linework in this image was the foundation to my concertina-style cutting, with a colour change, it formed the foundation for the following panorama:
Stretched
As a final piece, this works superbly, yet I wished to add in context. The panorama of my location was the topic so it was added.
Re-worked
Yet I was still not happy with the result, so I have added a painted layer to the parts I felt were letting it down:
“Symphony in The key of Sea”
Source file: a Gordion Knot of old sailing ropes buried in the sand at the local beach.
“Symphony in the key of Sea” – detail
full dimensions: 1500 x 900mm
Gilden rivers
Collecting images led me to sunset and here the golden hour struck its payload: a receding tide left streams of rivulets like deltas begging for memory. “Gilden Rivers” was a delight in texture and sophisticated colouring.
We spend our days talking, making images with our words, so what if one replaces words with pictures and paints their thoughts to each other? That’s a little like doing a residency in an art colony.
Driftwood Dancer
1400 x 700mm – gloss paper
Using the “concertina” image of driftwood as a vehicle for the images of Esther walking along a bamboo pole, the combination of broad steps climbing and escalating downwards, gives foundation to the poetry of a fall.
Somewhere in the Middle East
1200 x 900mm – gloss paper
This came about by utilising a texture from Esther Rzewnicki’s samples which appealed to my senses of colour and line. Here it has been multiplied and overlaid then “smashed” together giving the effect of Japanese weaving, a pattern of rich lush texture that could be the basis of a Kimino.
A second reading could be a dystopian crime scene of mass destruction of homes, not unlike the horror bombing of Syria, Palestine and now Lebanon.
There is a third reading that shows of a shimmering village which still stands, albeit in an ancient land.
