Friday….Thursday 1/13/2010
20 hours
This week was another thinking period for me. I sketched more of my block arrangements and continued to contemplate how I am going to eventually display them in the gallery. I also began to carve into a piece of MDF, but I think I may have rushed into it and decided to put it aside for now.
On Tuesday, I was lucky enough to talk to Seth, Erica, Amanda, and Janie. At this point in my experimentation I think that talking is the most helpful. I showed them my photographs and the drawings I had done from them. Seth and Amanda raised the question whether or not I should be doing woodcarvings and more. They asked why I was so on including it in my final piece. Other then that I really enjoy working with wood I couldn’t come up with a better answer. Seth then said something that I really enjoyed, he said woodcarving is something that you do now for fun as play, in replacement of what you did as a child, played with building blocks. It’s almost like this project is an evolution of my play throughout the years. I really enjoyed this answer and was thinking about a possible name for my exhibit, which I know is very premature, but I came up with the name PLAY. Amanda then suggested I try and do a photolitho of one of my drawings for the coming week so that I can see a little better at how the prints are going to turn out.
After my conversation with Seth and Amanda, I was able to talk to Janie and Erica. Janie suggested that I begin to cut up my drawings so that I can begin to play around with the arrangements of my blocks. This was a great idea and began to give me more of a visual for my final project. When I showed these to my small group yesterday they suggested that I continue to play around with the configuration and ultimately draw more and complete a photolitho for this coming week.
For this coming week and weekend…
I plan to complete a photolitho for Tuesday and sketch more of my building blocks. I will also work with some more configurations of the possible blocks and maybe explore more constructions.
I hope that I will be able to feel more comfortable with starting my woodblocks after I complete my photolitho and begin to start carving soon.
Anna,
ReplyDeleteI'm a little confused about the photolitho. Are you planning on printing the photolitho on the woodblock and then carving into the wood? Or just printing on the wood and leaving it as it is? Or seeing if you like the photolitho process, but still hoping to just print woodblocks?
These new building block images are really strong. The compositional gridding and cropping are work well. There is also something about the guilded frame idea that I like, as it seems to add an almost fantastical element to the presentation. The brightness of the gold in the mockup that you showed seems to be a bit distracting though. I wonder what other types of frames or colors of frames you could choose that would make more sense with this idea of childhood playing. Earlier in the year you talked about possibly carving faux frames out of wood to print on the borders of the images. Is this still something you're thinking about. I'd love to see how that looks with the images.
Your drawings are looking great!
Erica