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Redbrook Bridge

Sound part of cultural studies creative piece on objects and experience, focussing on the canoe.

Sound part of cultural studies creative piece on objects and experience, focussing on the canoe.

This is part of a plan for a creative piece, the proposal is for the recording to be experienced within a large canoe shaped space.

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Using the wax resist technique to write repeatedly across the canvas.

The words start with the phonetic alphabet and then go on to word association and are relaxing into shapes and letter-like forms. So going through the motions of writing by the end.

A fair bit of writing and words appearing in my work at the moment. testing out using words in ways that seem relevent to me.

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Working on with the large emulsion on canvas – I wrote across it – filing it – several times.

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Wax resist trial. I was actually trying to make this appear a bit like a Cy Twombly technique – I had thought he’d used watery black paint on wax, but on looking closer I find its simply white chalk on blackboard!

Instead of using his method, I’ve used what I’d assumed he used and it does have a very similar effect.

AN effect of doing the underwriting in white, on white is that I couldn’t see what I’d written and didn’t know how illegible my writing was.

This photo was taken while it’s still wet.

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For this I poured some white emulsion onto the paper in the middle and then worked black and white mix into it with a teaspoon and added more black in the centre and pushed it around, then again.

Unexpected and free motion in this as I’m not trying to depict anything in particular.

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I added pale blue and white to this previous experiment. The photo doesn’t show the colour well at all as its so pale.

This isn’t particularly exciting – I’m tempted to try another medium/technique on top.

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Going over one of my earlier experiments – this time added blue – fairly watered down acrylic, dripped and splattered from a teaspoon.

Quite energetic result – high contrast of colours and tones.

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A small amount of black acrylic spread around the textured paper with the back of a spoon. These kind of marks I usually associate with drawing rather than painting as it looks scribbled