I like this. In the first straight-on image the seams don't show, and there's no sense of scale, so the second image is really informative.
Quick reactions:
I like how the different colored papers form a shape and kind of space that is related to and a kind of inversion of the black printed donut-squares. There is the tension in the unexpected replacement of blue and green corners with white, whereas the yellow and pink corners are used/re-used. The middle square kind of pops out. I like the simple use of materials- paper the colors found near a photocopier of any medium-sized office, and the linen tape, the bit of puckering. And what do you know?- it's a painting: a wooden stretcher and staples.
I feel a connection to my HTML drawings: simple means (your B&W draw program or my use of simple HTML); predetermined color (your standard colored paper from the ream and my use, more or less, of 216 web-safe colors); the grid; images with a tension made by interruption or dislocation. Nice.
Since this followed closely on another post about old work (the one with drawings and hand painting) I'm unsure of the date of this work. Is it recent?
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Quick reactions:
I like how the different colored papers form a shape and kind of space that is related to and a kind of inversion of the black printed donut-squares. There is the tension in the unexpected replacement of blue and green corners with white, whereas the yellow and pink corners are used/re-used. The middle square kind of pops out. I like the simple use of materials- paper the colors found near a photocopier of any medium-sized office, and the linen tape, the bit of puckering. And what do you know?- it's a painting: a wooden stretcher and staples.
I feel a connection to my HTML drawings: simple means (your B&W draw program or my use of simple HTML); predetermined color (your standard colored paper from the ream and my use, more or less, of 216 web-safe colors); the grid; images with a tension made by interruption or dislocation. Nice.
Since this followed closely on another post about old work (the one with drawings and hand painting) I'm unsure of the date of this work. Is it recent?
- chrisashley 9-06-2004 8:35 am