Making progress

 I'm steadily getting things organized and assembling art. 

After my critique on Feb 1st, and the feedback, I've been working on more weaving of paper using the prints I've made over the last year. I asked if the weaving and manipulating my work on paper into other forms would be sufficient for a body of work to show for year two and was told that as long as I had more to show for it, it could be. So, I've been coming up with ideas to continue with that.

I've got a tabletop loom so I will be seeing how using fibre and weaving paper strips through will work, also coming up with ideas to create freestanding sculptures with the paper strips, as well as a large mobile, and possibly small standing pieces. I've got lots of ideas.

I am going to be taking my A1 nebula print and using the first and fourth print, weaving them together, oriented the same way - in my mind it will look pixelated. I will be having assistance with cutting it as I want everything cut perfectly straight and equal which I can't judge properly no matter what I do!

If this one turns out the way I envision it, fingers crossed, I plan to do more pieces in that way as I have literally hundreds of prints/ghosts piled up here. 

I have woven many of my gel prints together, and will be sealing them with Mod Podge, then use them to create various items. I'm still deciding what I'll use them for. I cut all the strips at 1" so they are 8x8" squares and both sides are coloured.

In my critique I showed the weaving I'd done using the mark making piece I did in Martin Brooks' workshop (my last post) and Anya suggested that a white mount would probably look better... so, it is now framed with a white mat and yes, she was correct!

It is partially covered by the mat as it is larger than the hole, but much more impactful, I think.

When I showed Helen Skidmore (Print Tech) pieces of the abstract thing from Martin's workshop (that I had cut up and sealed) she commented that it resembled Franz Kline's work - my blank look had her go to her computer and bring up his work. OMG... one of his paintings was exactly the same colours I'd used, and although his lines were much sharper than mine it was SO close to what I'd done,  I'm worrying people will think I'm just copying him!

 

Orange and Black Wall, Franz Kline

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Franz Kline (1910-1962) was an American Abstract Expressionist.  Guess the reason I'd never heard of him is that Abstract wasn't my thing and he wasn't covered my Art History classes. 

Here's what my stuff looks like - I am laying out chunks to figure out my mobile construction...

It is freaky how closely my experiment resembles that work of his. I've always said there is NOTHING new in art, just rehashing, and I guess this proves my point!

It looks like I may end up abstract due to my vision so I will now have to embrace it. Sigh... oh well. As long as I am satisfied with the results I'll go with the flow. It is what it is.

And on a happy note, my surgery last Friday was a massive success in my opinion! I can now see out of my right eye again! Yay! I still am visually impaired but it is now just dealing with retinopathy and that deterioration, not completely blocked vision like the cataract was causing. They will be scheduling the left eye now. Much better just dealing with the out-of-focus, blotchy vision with  gaps, than with the total blur that only left me able to distinguish light and dark blobs.