Research point 1Listen to Gabriel Orozco talking about the ‘Working Table’ pieces. In your learning log/blog reflect on his comments in relation to your own work for this project. How do Orozco’s descriptions of his working process resonate with your own methods and approach?Gabriel Orozco Working Tables: LINK 15 Listening to the discussion by the […]
Exercise 1.4 Collect, combine, construct I am immediately drawn to the construct of Monogram, 1955-59, the scale, the different parts of this painting with objects, and the time frame in which it developed as a work. I question why he settled on putting the work horizontally on the floor, apparantly in the second stage of […]
Exercise 1.3. Studio Reflections For this exercise, I need to consider my relationship to my work or studio space. Question: In your learning log/blog reflect upon your own approach to, and feelings about: action/inaction/, focus/distraction, knowing, being productive/unproductive, in the studio. What is your relationship to your workspace? What does your workspace provide you with? […]
Exercise 1.2 On perspective Using gouache and/or household emulsion, paint flat colours onto pieces of paper mirroring the colours you see on the table. Paint a base paper the colour of the tabletop. Make a series of colour studies, with these papers, which explore shape and the spatial relationships that exist between the table and […]
“Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it – that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything. There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing – an actor, a writer […]