Failure

I have my 'Installation Under Sink' work on the Failure blog, Take a look!

http://failure2011.blogspot.com/

Canvas Unpicked and Dipped III

 

These are a series of images showing the making of the work I am intending to show at degree show. (Bath School of Art and Design Degree Show, 11th - 15th June 2011) I have built a 120 x 200cm stretcher and stretched it with canvas. The canvas has been tugged off the stretcher and is being unpicked thread by thread.

 As each thread is unpicked it is dipped in oil medium before being laid back over the stretcher. Each strand is laid over the stretcher in the same direction as it was unpicked from, i.e. if a thread was pulled from the canvas vertically it is lain vertically. The 'finished' lattice of dipped threads then will, in part, be a description of the structure of the canvas. The oil medium is vital in retaining the liquid, visceral quality of painting. The addition of the medium and the process of redeploying the canvas strands means the work is not only read as a deconstruction of painting.

The finished installation will hold the performance of the making within it but also transcend the process. The viewer will be asked to look at the, often hidden, materials of painting and see them in a different light.