I've started a new project where I am collecting marks indirectly. These pages have been under the goose for a twenty four hour period. Collecting oil from the engine block and from the puddle on the cardboard on the floor.
You can see more of those on my AIB blog if you are interested
Here is the pattern piece as it is now. Sorry for the low quality image . . .
Just random marks on a piece of Masonite, it might lead to something . . .
Some writing on another paper texture exploration.
One of the small 'black' Masonite explorations, some detail has been added with pen.
What's the link to your AIB blog?
ReplyDeleteLike how the random collected marks, stenciled marks and written marks are working together. Maybe due in part because they were all made either deliberately or incidentally and therefore they read differently as well? I think the written marks are kind of like the representational aspect in the compositions where they appear, they provide a point of access to the image and they viewer can tell what they are which gives a good balance to the abstract stuff.
boggs-studio.blogspot.com -- I think you can access it through my profile on here as well.
ReplyDeleteI want to make a book that I am comfortable letting people handle and thumb through, more of an object than a personal journal. Using the pickup speaks to my sentimental tendencies, but it also relates on a humanistic level. How we define ourselves by our possessions, but by pointing out the negative, it becomes a contradiction. In a world where everything is moving toward being eco-friendly, this becomes even more contradictory.
I am thinking about adding a few bits of information to each of the pages. The date, the mIleage from the odometer for each of the days, and the price of a barrel of oil on the stock exchange.
I am an idiot, didn't even think of checking your profile.
ReplyDeleteThe idea of adding information to the pages could be a good way relay more of your idea/concept. The oil drips were random in their application and you were removed from the process. If you write something on each page it'll be deliberate and you would be directly involved in that process. So I suppose there would be a nice contrast there.
Would there be some way to document the desired information without you being involved in writing it? Would that even be a good idea? What if rather than writing down the milage you took a Polaroid of the odometer and a screen grab from CNN's money market page showing oil prices and printed it out? Than could those objects be stitched into the folios or something? Don't know, just my reactions to your concept.
What I like about your idea is that there is a sense of control and chaos that could be read from the concept. The drips are caught randomly, but you put the paper there, park the truck, put oil in the truck. So in a way you assist in the mark making. You stack miles onto your truck by driving it, which one could say you don't have control over. You have to go where you go, but then again you choose where you go ultimately those decisions are reflected in an ever rotating odometer that records the distances driven. Finally you don't help set the price of oil each day, but you consume it so in a small part you do reflect our need for oil. So there are elements that you contribute to the process and then aspects that are out of your control.
Sorry for going on and on, but your idea is intriguing and since it's so good it was fun to spit ball about things related to it.
Hey, thanks for the feedback. This project has been in many of my recent conversations. This particular version of the project may end up being a sketch for something similar in a different format . . . I really don't know at this point. It seems like a worth-while exercise if nothing else.
ReplyDeleteI've been doing some small paintings in my sketchbook over the last few days. I'll have to get some images uploaded. It seems that a direction might be developing with that as well. It might mean binding a new book and starting a second for that . . . we'll see.