Last time I posted in here I was thinking about portable kingdoms and how to express the idea that we carry our space/place/culture with us where ever we go.
This idea is more about looking at personal space of an internal kind. I played about with the idea in some unsuccessful sketches (see below) but everything looked so hard edged and what I have in mind is hazy and soft. I've started a painting of a group of figures that I hope links back in to the idea of crowds (funny how things get circular) and incorporates the concept of space as a kind of mist.
You know how sometimes really strong images come in a dream and you wake up really excited and carrying that 'eureka' feeling around ? This one was like that, and so far it's working out to be as I imagined, with the figures pretty indistinct and nothing linear happening, which is great.
I struggled when I realised that culture is part of what we carry around, allowing myself to get bogged in how I was going to express that huge concept. I've decided not to get too hooked up in it, and to keep the mystery alive for the viewer to come to their own conclusions about the blue aura.
I'll post a pic of the painting and progress on the sculpture.
I've had a quiet month or two in a creative sense, though I drew and entered my drawing into the National Drawing Award a couple of weeks ago. The works are all A4 and will be hung in Artspace in Auckland and The Physics Room in Christchurch.
I won't post it here - the internet is a funny place and it was a nude (and an axolotyl), so I don't really want the spam traffic. That's my excuse anyway. ( It was black on white embossed wallpaper and white on black painted paper) I haven't heard that it wasn't accepted for exhibition, so that's a good thing - I guess it might be 'in'.
I'm enjoying the return of the creative buzz - I think I've been thinking too much!
