Click here for an overview of Day 11. Experimenting with projection, video, reflection and shadow. Shadow cube video - YouTube SK LB: More drawing in space... After much deliberation about colour over the weekend, I decided to use a dark grey wool to make today's installation. I'm much happier with it than with Friday's brightly coloured one. I used the same hooks to tether the wool but made it much less geometric, allowing the wool to form irregular loops. At this point it reminded me of two of Eva Hesse's installations: Hesse's works are made out of fibreglass dipped in latex so have more form, texture and body than mine. I think I would call them sculptures rather than installations, actually. hers are also much more interesting than mine! Mine, however, is still a work in progress and will be a 'frame', of sorts, for many knitted objects. I then began to add more looping lines to the first ones, connecting them to one another to create a web-like structure. I think the fact that it is made with just one colour means that the form is more obvious, which I prefer. Part of me wanted to use black, as it's so striking, but I have certain reservations about it for this particular project. Ironically, though, the shade of dark grey I have chosen looks black from a distance anyway! ... and some knitting: Over the weekend I knitted some small, abstract sculptural forms in bright colours. The plan for my main installation at The Art Cohort in May is that it will grow and change as the month progresses. The net-like form will become a frame for pieces of knitting that I'll make in residence and then add to the installation day by day. I like the idea of the work being transformed from being dark grey and linear, to becoming brightly coloured and more sculptural. I'm still not sure about which colours to use, or precisely how I'll attach them so I need to experiment further with this as well. One especially pleasing detail is that when I added the two knitted sections to the loops of wool, their weight changed the form of the lines I attached them to, of course, making them more geometric. This means that each piece of knitting added will change the overall structure. TH: For me, one of the principal gains of this residency has been the chance to show a sequence of 24 small painted panels in a single horizontal band fully 7.5 metres wide; the way I'd always hoped to display it. It's called 'View From a Train: 23 Seconds', which pretty much explains what it depicts. Of my pieces, it's easily the one that's received the most attention from visitors to the gallery (to be fair, it's hard to miss).
Two more recent, single paintings have generated far less interest, though I'm glad to have displayed them. Seeing them in situ has convinced me that several more - maybe 7.5 metres' worth - would be worth making.
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