Back to work...with some assemblage
Even though I should still be enjoying the holidays and relaxing, I have started back to my creative endeavours this week in my home studio, which I have thoroughly enjoyed. My head is back in the game and I am reflecting on where the work will take me this year.
I have been finishing off some projects that I had been
anticipating finishing prior to Xmas but ran out of time. It has been good to
get back to them.
Over the last few months, I have been creating a series of
work about Spirituality (and specifically spiritual energy), which has several
strands. The first strand is the channelled paintings, working on large,
handmade canvasses and depicting the universal energy that is all around us.
The second strand is around the theme of Kirlian photography
and the evidence base for each living thing having an energy field. The
relevance of the leaf as a motif is that it echoes the stages of life, from
birthing as a bud, shooting into life, bathing in the sun throughout the summer
and then decaying through the autumn until they tumble to their death in the winter.
They can be reborn if they then feature in art, they have another life beyond
their normal physical one. Their energy transmutes and they live again in a
different guise.
The Kirlian Leaf Block series was created using offcuts of
scrap wood, again giving it a new lease of life beyond its original one and
immortalising it. The idea of salvaging things beyond their original life span
is interesting to me. Extending the life span beyond the original one puts me
as the artist into the role of creator.
Today I started some assemblages looking at the symbolism of
spirituality, these are something I have used in my work before and find really
interesting to put together. Playing with imagery is something I have done a
lot of in the past, as a lot of my work is collage based. Isolating images to
stand alone and not employing paint alongside gives more of a challenge, playing
with placement, object and image to convey what is portrayed.
Here are Spirit I & Sprit II:
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