so i went and played around a bit with the other still life and reframed it like this
i had a great time reframing and reprocessing the original 4x3 iphone shot, so i definitely will spend more time considering cropping and framing options.
yay! no more thoughtless squares.....!
ps i love how your crop of my still life acknowledges the light hanging from the cord; did you know that it was inspired by the way Bacon uses lightbulbs in some of his paintings?
Until you mentioned it, I hadn't thought of Bacon's single light in many of his paintings. But...yes. That is what that tiny light in your photo image reminds me of, too. I like your cropping of the cans on the table top. Now the trash looks like a cluster of red - a flower arrangement or still-life of red peppers...a collage of sorts...on a battered table. A more psychological study this way. I love playing with cropping tools. Maybe that is why I physically crop so much of my work on paper. Cut it up permanently and, sometimes, put all the pieces back together in a haphazard (maybe not totally haphazard) way to play with fragments of color and texture.
ReplyDeleteI checked out the IKEA light - amazing how cheep that payed paper shade is. I hate shopping. But, maybe before winter I'll drag myself over to Ikea to pick that lamp shade up and play with it. Over the weekend I tried my hand at turning paper into a sculpture. I visited a local gallery to take in - for the second time - an exhibit of baskets from the Basket Weavers convention or something like that, which met in my city. Wonderful, wonderful stuff that got me thinking about weaving paper strips ( I've done that before many times) with wires that would allow me to shape the final weaving panel. I made two attempts. One I wrangled into a vase shape with wire ends sticking out all over the place and paper ends flaying unfinished (I was inspired by a Vermont weaver's sculpture I saw at the exhibit. She used paper and wires to make a vessel and cover the outside with paint and sand. Delicious!). I may take a photo of that disastrous attempt and post it here. Then I tried it again creating a flat woven mat with copper wire on two sides. It hangs flat on my studio wall now because I need to keep looking at it to imagine the shaping possibilities. A problem to solve. I do see a lamp shade as one possibility. I see that I think first of utility when I imagine my work in 3-D. I need to refer to the book I bought for the basket exhibit to remind myself that those weavers who made it in the show came up with more purely sculptural work than utilitarian basket work.
I've said it before. I'll say it again. Paid work is getting in the way of my art work. When I post next, I will insert a link to the basket exhibit if I can find one. Also, I will post my weaving attempts (too stiff! Too geometric! Decent colors, though.)