Tuesday, 11 October 2011

Monoprinting & Dirt

Testament to my camera's weirdness...
Harry in our hotel room dans le Cambridge:


Me in art studio yesterday:


I quite enjoy the shaky, unintentional picture molestation. It reminds me of all manner of beautiful, accidental, characteristically 'lomo' photography.

 Examples of 'typically' lomo images pulled from google:



They have the shaky image contrast and simultaneously vibrant & washed out colours - how could I not love this? It's high art grunge <3
Anyhow...
Following the trip to the geology rooms in Cambridge, I've been thinking more about incorporating worn   and aged aspects of natural phenomena - using fossils and fossilised forms to create that foetid, decrepit, long-lost, neglected and more literally physical ways of showing these things...

Fossil forms:



Basic 2 layer screen print of forms:


Monoprints of fossil forms - these have a much nicer and more appropriate texture:





With thoughts on Nedjar's horrid dirt dolls and Gormely's fluid, emotive, textured drawings:






Dirt paintings of figures:





Owing to weird camera. this dirt painting of the kelp girl laying at the bottom of the kelp forest hasn't shown up too well:


Paper soaking overnight in muddy water:


Looking at the marks on the paper - like fossils etc:






Curiously relevant to my interests:

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