This series of images shows 20 x 30cm Canvas Unpicked and Dipped as it is being made.
The work has moved on quite dramatically recently. I have been making works which make more of the fact I am unpicking canvas. I have begun to unpick whole pieces of canvas and am displaying the resulting threads together, rather than unpicking and isolating a few strands.
Consequently I feel the work is much less charismatic as a finished piece. It works much better as I am making the work, as a time based performance. This is something I wish to explore further.
For 20 x 30cm Canvas Unpicked and Dipped I began with a piece of canvas the size the title suggests, I attached this to the wall at a comfortable unpicking height, next to a shelf also at a comfortable height to work on. I then unpicked the canvas, dipping the threads in a jar of oil medium before dropping them onto the shelf.
The canvas therefore went form being an ordered piece of material to being a pile of chaotic, sticky threads. There are numerous problems with this piece however. I intend to further the work by moving away from the wall and making the work into more of a practiced, rather than an accidental, performance.
