As it is the start of third year I have been thinking about how to modify and expand my work. I want to keep the compelling elements and take out the parts I feel I have explored. I want to continue forming and making spaces with the threads. I will build spaces for them to inhabit so the viewer experiences them in a near perfect environment. Conversely I have been scouting around for sites where I can install a few threads as an intervention. I am looking for sites in which the works will look as if they could almost have formed themselves. Though I still wish it to be obvious that they are paintings. There is a contradiction here, though one which I hope will create tension in the work.
Under sinks, from pipes and from trees are sites I am looking at and experimenting with. Threads hanging from under sinks and pipes may look slightly grotesque and put the viewer in mind of slime and tendrils of mineral deposits. Whereas hanging from trees the threads will look much more like sap, and perhaps even bodily. I have started testing these ideas and will update the blog soon with progress.
