Catsup

After I posted Parchment and Tar (which are actually a little warmer and greener than this photo shows), I realised the big hole that doesn't say anything AT ALL about what we've been doing on our collaboration lately. It's not a secret ...so this is a catch up. I'll add a sketch to it so our ideas are easier to follow (It's Ricky's, he's better at describing 3D forms as concepts - turns out I'm not so good at that!).

Basically, we spent a day working together (so much fun) and came up with the cool idea that we're currently working on.
What does a collaboration between a sculptor and a painter actually look like? It looks like a sculpture, with painted bits - conceived by us both and developed singly and together.

We're telling the story of what happens when a group of objects (in this case people) moves through a spacial environment. The important bit is the 'through' bit. If we move through a space, we don't just dance on the surface touching nothing with our presence - we interact with the environment, and it also interacts with and affects us. Everything exists on and of planes - and so the planes interact with all the other objects in that space. This is our idea - they bisect the figures and become part of them.

At the moment Ricky is making the sculptural forms from clay, he'll cast them in plaster and add the material for the planes later which I'll paint. We're talking together about the piece as it develops, suggesting refinements and colours and visualising it as a whole - my part will come later when the finishing happens. It's going to be interesting!