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| Pollen studies. Felt pen on paper, 2016. |
Mobile notes:
19/11/16
• Painting on 3D pollen. The painted colour has a different register to the collage - much softer, perhaps too soft. Or perhaps just not enough of it yet? Some areas need going over - a 2nd layer, to obliterate brushstrokes, and increase flatness of the added colour. I like and dislike the confused, multi-layering of structure and pattern. A sense of shifting realities.
• Painting on 3D pollen. The painted colour has a different register to the collage - much softer, perhaps too soft. Or perhaps just not enough of it yet? Some areas need going over - a 2nd layer, to obliterate brushstrokes, and increase flatness of the added colour. I like and dislike the confused, multi-layering of structure and pattern. A sense of shifting realities.
• To do: collages of pollen. Collages of packaging textures/patterns, samplers for borders. Testers of pigment pollen surface. Collage from gouache of Study for Large Capital.
8/11/16
25/11/16
• Walls, borders and blocks. Cdbd double-wall. Single wall. Honeycomb wall, small, medium, large. Walls with windows. Ornamental margins. Coal 'block'. Energy block. Woodcut block. Thinking of layered sediment of cardboard and offcuts. Ontop, ridges in the arrangement of coal structure, facets coloured in shades of black, brown, blue and purple (bruise colours).
• Colour palette: ‘colourless’ cells /'neutral' cardboard.... neutrality of (as in colourless cells), translated/seen through making painted drawings, become colours of bruises and colours of coal - buff, ochre to tangerine and light blue/grey in light to deep purple/brown/maroon in shadow.
8/11/16
• Image for WMG by 2/12/16: s'thing to convey key idea of plant machines/plantworks - the botanical and the industrial, Morris and the domestic (Study for Large Captial? Includes both plant & machine refs (e.g. tulip stigma/wingnut/drone).
• Make 'Large Capital' (Tulip Stigma)
• Collage or object itself? Sheet of gouache &/or collage studies of crosssections of pistil like cogs. Crosssections and heads (capitals)
• Anthers - continue with longitudinal crosssections and transverse crosssections. Re-implant the 3d cdbd cross-section into the papier mache exterior walls.
• Fragments, dissected parts of plants, pulled apart. In the quest to understand, the plant/flower is destroyed. Nature violated.
• Fragments, isolated motifs: woodblocks...
• The woodblock itself, as an object, like layered sediment of plant matter: i.e. likened to formation of coal. Loop - coal lump/clump faceted woodblocks with surface motifs (tulip stigma, collage of palette painting that appears like the coal structure).
• Wall panels/wall charts. They don't have to be rectangular. Cut out fragments…semi-relief blocks on 'jigsawed' cardboard shapes. Isolated shapes suspended from the hanging rail, and/or, a combination of pieces strung together. E.g. The style and stigma…separated/dissected sections. Flattened versions of 3d models.
• Pollen grains… Papier mache ...layers over egg-box spikes, gesso'd, painted • Like ornaments? Too much like ornaments? 3D pattern components. Morris's relationship to ornament - re. architecture and the gothic - anti utilitarian, purely functional...preference for adorning, ornamenting. but specific in his ideas of tasteful ornament - pro-organic - architecture that includes 'growth'. Against overly geometric design. Interesting rub - incompatibility of Morris/Mitten aesthetics!
28/11/16
• Unravelled, spliced coal structure. Something interesting happened when partial sections/layers slid over the layer below…like graphite sloughing off mid process, suggestion of how this cd be built back up - new facets added to solidify voids.
• Walls, borders and blocks. Cdbd double-wall. Single wall. Honeycomb wall, small, medium, large. Walls with windows. Ornamental margins. Coal 'block'. Energy block. Woodcut block. Thinking of layered sediment of cardboard and offcuts. Ontop, ridges in the arrangement of coal structure, facets coloured in shades of black, brown, blue and purple (bruise colours).
• Colour palette: ‘colourless’ cells /'neutral' cardboard.... neutrality of (as in colourless cells), translated/seen through making painted drawings, become colours of bruises and colours of coal - buff, ochre to tangerine and light blue/grey in light to deep purple/brown/maroon in shadow.
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| Pollen in progress with small constructions of tulip pistil (Capital Construction) in progress |
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| In progress: Pollen - papier mache model - testing painting reticulated pollen pattern on papier mache surface. Photograph by Shirin Shahidi. |
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| 3d paper sketch of coal structure |
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| Drawing of coal structure, taken from molecular structure (above left, 'coal' images from google images), and paper model (above right). |
