Blog 14

Notes to self. (The thinking process whilst making). 


Dot in the landscape no longer.

What are you trying to say?

Do you want to say anything?

Do you need to say anything?

Personal to me. Irrelevant to others?

How connect to others? Do I need to?

No excuses.

Travel. Journeys. Real. Metaphorically.

Invisible Line. Real Line.

Thoughts in Space. Me in Space.

Ruins - but not ruins at all.

Ephemera.

Dots as written language.

Like circles. Untouched & ½ touched.

Mathematical. Not.

Mechanical. The Handmade.

Flaws. Want them.

Joined. Not joined.

Touching. Spaced apart.

Rows. Random.

More than one large circle (not just the one).

The edge of the paper. Problematic.

Infinite space. Just a part of.

Splitting.

I can barely see what I am doing.

Invisible drawing.

I drive 25 miles or so to draw     nothing.

No. Crap.

Thinking maps, distances, travel, text.

Want to write something in pictorial code.

Worlds. Islands. Rain. Mismatched circles. Wallpaper. Plotting.

Can't write. Want to write. Don't know what to say? What am I trying to say? Nothing. Want to get something out.

The edges (are) holding back the work. Pinned whole paper. Had to get it down. An urgency. Out.

What is it with me and language? Text and struggle with pictorial text?

The whole paper pinned. What?

It definitely felt like writing. A message. I don't understand.

(Words) Makes the work too defined?

Maybe its about time.

Get familiar with your materials. Feel them. Be in tune with them.

Skin.
Time.

Pummeling into the dots. Needs force, but controlled. Work with the paper. Try to understand it.
Too much force tears the paper. Machine gun approach doesn't work - that's the easy option.

The piercing into the paper disrupts the rhythm.

The edge of the paper still bothers me. Too straight. A boundary.

The holes/tears bother me. Have pierced into the surface/broken it.

Still like invisible drawing 'cause working on reverse side.

A void, an opening, a slit, a door?...

Wrinkles - a skin. A surface.

Letting in or letting out?

A passageway.

Embossing ⟷ Pinning

Tissue paper wrinkles.
Cellotape wrinkles.
Imprint dots.
Tracing paper dots.

Relationship between ② & ③ ?

Adding/removing.

The mix of black (to make black).

2D plane & 3D plane.

'painted' surface - graphite sheen, charcoal matt, emboss leather.

What works; what doesn't.

Is it the dots or the colour of the dots?

Need to choose what colours I want to work with (how?)

What colours to match up to e.g. am I trying to make a chocolate brown or a skin colour?
An exact or an imagination

Colour is giving me too much choice. Becomes muddly.

Need to set parameters / instruction. Simple yet effective.

Holes or dots?

When you punch holes in what colour do you put behind?

(Colour)
Too bigger jump? Why. In what context? Doesn't make sense i.e. its wrong. Too radical. Doesn't add up. How does this relate to anything? To me. Is it a cry for help in the creative 'wrong' sense?

So many combos of colours - way to go, as in choices. Too complicated. Simplify it or move on.

I know I enjoyed mixing the colours (visually and practically) but then what.

Pinning tracing paper = new needle = pricking noise (click). Edgy as pin pierces the surface. You can feel it.

Shading ✗ or ✓ ?

Like an image forming of it's own accord. Yet should I think more carefully about it?

Should the process be seen as well in the work. Directly? Or should it be more subtle?