Wire world

Working with wire to make simple sculptures, like drawing in air.

Initially I'd intended these wire structures as armatures for mobiles, but having started playing with the wire it seemed more satisfying to keep them clean and simple- the wire itself is so lively and expressive.

Slow week

It has been a doleful week. My lack of energy worsened by the coldness of this apartment which seems to have the effect of immobilising me close to our one, tiny bar heater: flats in Southern Brazil don't often have heating, even though it's always quite coold in the winter.

Anyway, with a view to shifting my conception of what art production is onto the digital age, I cleared out old photo files from the computer. I installed the counters (below)- though for some reason I do not really trust them. And I continued work on the mobiles, cutting out more shapes and considering better how to use them- including a wider varierty of shapes and experimenting with flash, and different coloured filters.

The thing is not to lose the naive, folk art feel of the cutouts in the course of photographing them. If the photograph is too highly manipulated this gets lost and the result is like an overproduced live recording of a performance.

You can see the work so far, here-

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28509471@N05/sets/72157621606358902/

The Kingdom of Moth

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I`m making progress here, using the cut-outs to revist a theme I began last year but somehow couldn't really make progress on- a series of monotypes to be called Moth, a Dream.

 I'd intended to make a series of monotypes which Nick Parker would perhaps write a piece to accompany. But there's a time for everything and perhaps the time wasn't right. Or maybe I over-thought the idea. 

 Anyway, here we go again, this time a giant mobile with The Kingdom of Moth as a working title.

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Cutouts

I spent today working on these cutouts, and then photographing them.

My original idea was to work on a mobile, and I may still do this. However, I might also try to make miniature stage sets with them. For that to make sense, I'd need some sort of narrative structure, though I could possible just make them as "Tableau" illustrating, say "The Four Seasons", or "States of Mind".

Perhaps they are sufficient in themselves- something tells me, however, that they are not.