There is a new town being built from scratch in East Lothian called Blindwells. When it was just a muddy field I asked the site manager if there was a map of what the town will look like. He told me there wasn’t one, and have I looked at the website. It seems they are bulldozing large portions of the area into ‘compression hills’ to see what will take the weight of a house, then they will make the map.
Truth to materials. I hadn’t thought they might do it that way round. It is quite interesting to give agency to art materials too… let water levels, gravity and the composition of paper decide on drawing and space, not unfettered but in a limited way to allow change to be observed.
I’ve tried to transform the paintings in other ways too. A painting is also an object. Put it in a frame and that also becomes part of the object. Drawing the circles off-centre became too cute, adding an extra level of decision-making I’m trying to avoid. Is something moving in or out of position? Lighting, natural and ultra-violet. Reflection or emitter? The intensity and balance of light creates alternatives. Is it 2D or 3D? Or like this one... An argument between a painting and a frame.
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