Sunday, 17 February 2013

Complete Transcript of Installation Comments


Here is the complete transcript of the 41 comment sheets from my installation space project on tuesday 12 Feb. Visitors were asked to comment on the relationship between two pieces of work within a random sequence of 42 pieces:

34 ß à 5






Connections between style of the works and both pieces, although different scales they both fill the pages completely.
Charcoal

CARVING OUT          At the coal face
Spontaneous use of line
Path/journey
Free, loose, expressive
     limited colour palette







5 ß à 7




tight vs loose
important spaces
Memory
Fluid/fixed
Keep moving
Squiggly

              Father’s for Justice
Same location?
Lines
BlocK COlOUR

Linear        angles
Curves






7 ß à 6



OUTSIDE
SPACE
Monochromatic
Window-like
Dark space
Monochrome

MONO              black ((gray)) à    lighterrrrr
                                         darkerrrrr
                                         white

            white & dark colour space in both pieces

Chopped shapes, differing grades

Image slowly fading             positive/negative
                                Presence/absence






6 ß à 9



MARSH
Silhouette
of a face
ß
                                                flowing
                  Basalt
                          Animal vs civilisation

                                           dark
                                                                                    smudges

                  Texture
I see a relationship between these
Two images the texture of the graphic/
Pencil one seems to be a focused in area
Of part of the figure in the other image
à But enlarged and abstract
These 2 images evoke a sense of
Movement enticing my eye to a tennis-like
left-Right observation
The fragments of charcoal area on the left
seem to be drawn toward the ‘swoosh’
depiction on the right & vortex-like
   composition as the curves return my eye on a journey back toward the left and so-on






9 ß à 31



journey into the               juxtaposed                                     with landscape
unknown                            well

Perspectives
flowing-round
    (arching)

Isolation                Archaic pleasures

Pope
grainy vs Smooth






31 ß à 4


H a r e (Hidden)

Sense of
Story/happening                                              
                                                         storm
                                                                      wind
                                                                    sparrows
                                                                  bees
                                                                cows
                                                               weeds
                                                            ants

            horizon
         they seem to be different
frames of the same film
Walk
narrative

         landscape            both from
                                                      photocopies

noise
movement

ecosystem






4 ß à 28


                  past +
present

              future of
                  things to
                      come

                  Holiday
                   Memories
Shopping
BAG

  Places/event






28 ß à 33


WORDS – ‘ATLANTIC’ vs VISUAL DEPICTION OF WATER
FLUID FEEL & COLOUR

Colour     induction

Similar use of colour

Breaking down

WATER
     Colour/use of lines
& movement

abstraction

I feel drawn towards these two pieces of work.  I feel they connect because of the text world slavery, versus port, trading port.  They both have a water element too.






33 ß à 29

         linear texture      

                  Dorset

Use of
curved lines                short black and   white
                                         lines
                           feel of emptiness

rhythm                          Music


Short lines, mark-making –

                  MARK MAKING






29 ß à 38

SAME LOCATION? RUBBING + LINO




SECLUSION

     A flowing in different visual languages



            Hidden Artist



Both remind me of water, maybe the same place but one a close-up?






38 ß à 16


places



lines

                       Microscopic
                             Levels of vision


                         Fat scribbly lines



                                                             reflection



16 ß à 30




Scratches, marked à Damaged


   use of a single line
    opposite colours

                                                 Grainy, filmic


Lines
tone
-mood
+atmosphere
         Dark, cold
contrast between
hectic + calm.
use of a funky colour.
                 contrast of dark shapes and
white.



   de-Saturated
                                                               un-tamed




30 ß à 36


Turner, reproduced as
   a reversed, upside down
photocopy…,
      dusk
            fog



      Bleak, still
                                                    sparsity
                                             (reflected in sky)


Sense of Still
                   
                    (over) Exposure

Big space, black splodges

foot Prints
         Space
        awareness
-      negative space
       calmness/stillness



36 ß à 10


Pewsey Hospital

          The
beginning!
birth
ß looks like
somethings
about to start,
about to express,
eggs - à
                                         New.
     possible                           perhaps an
          rubbing of                   animal about
               excess                      to exist.

             Time … spent



Chaos vS Calm

                             Solidarity




10 ß à 37









                                    Flight à
Rock .                                   dark
                                                smudges

Birds, eggs, hatching
Strength, violence

                                                                 Bird? à

                            sparatic

small bursts of colour.

textures – colours + linear
                                          patterns

à materials




37 ß à 8

















    Rainbow

Flight/Aeroplanes/Freeing




8 ß à 27


                                                      smudge


Itten


colour/wheel
                                        control/letting go
form and formless
apart and together

                           primary
                                  colours


          Rain
                 drop




27 ß à15


                                Sense of meaning
ê
   language
       within?


Black   Mountain

TYPOGRAPHIC
R àE

Boat Race

Celebration

       condensed
monochrome
version of the
 previous.
    more contained




15 ß à 23


         More expressive of the
       previous.
                  Bright use of colour.
















       ONE IMAGE
              Tonett


                                  Summer



23 ß à 13

         LOCATION  OF
            SIGHTED   BIRD?

representation / abstraction

  language represented in two
different ways – one clear
 and one obscured

                                                                        print


PUB   .                     could be
                description of
                Blue picture?




13 ß à 21

     Combining
          text



     tree .




21 ß à 18

Landscape, plants                                               LAZY DAY.
 and flowers … our
  surrounding world.                        

                        Sort of
                        domestic setting
                        also plant
                         is similar shape
                          to cross




18 ß à 3

KEEP   NATURE   SAFE
ê

House plant, the link between inside and out.
  /Juxtaposition, image & text .

                                    Still ‘v’ WInD




The Growth is eVIDENT
FROM THE RESULT OF
THE SEEDS EXTENSION
EXTENSIONS OUT
OUT INTO THE WORLD!
THE WORLD OF CONSTANT
CHANGE. THE ONLY
CONSTANT


NOW I CAN HAVE A DOUBLE LOLLY…. .





3 ß à 20


  I found  a  element  like   a   boot




Meltdown .




20 ß à 14

    I feel there is a life and death connection
 between these two pieces, although both
 have a sensuous fluidity.



THE DEAD AND THE LIVING?


A PLAY .

Painting technique, colour.

Solid colour space

Process of
     death –
Death not the end




14 ß à 12

It’s like a process of dancing
- fast paced lines - working
   within a mood/feeling




MUSIC




12 ß à32

tree house .




32 ß à 42

Strong Shapes, tree à Tower,   hanging – leaves
                                                                                 vines, beads,
                                                                                          fabric

LINEAR PATTERN – LIGHT &
  DARK CONTRAST – UNKEMPT NATURE
                                                      UNKEMPT URBAN ENVIRONMENT


natural


nature vs manmade
     growth                            trapping
          î          nature
               restraint

 These images both                   Age . Both look
are focused on linear                        quite dated
aspects as well as lacking
In colour and tone à both
appear to have an atmosphere   
of memory and history             Pattern .


Memory, time, remembrance




42 ß à 25

                                                      growing
Breaks up two
 similar images
  well                                                             jungle
   structure
    Nature
     Growth
Text Box: Sharp lines       tell a story
   î
  a feeling of
    narrative
     with both



      Nature vs man made









memorys




25 ß à 1

The business with these two pieces are evident in
that the subject in each fills their space in almost in its entirety
where in the work on the left is covered with an
explosion of branches, twigs and lines while the other piece
is filled with pictures of the trees that is similar to the
other piece but much more in their amount and quantity

                  multiplicity
                         discovery

Weather.



Nature, journey through line  .





1 ß à 22

                                    . water based
                                                      technique related to
                                                      the rivers and lakes
                                             in the photos.
                                             A journey?

   Slug / train track shape.

                           foot prints filled with water ,

                                    time


             Journey





22 ß à 17

      possibly the
                  trail/path of slug?


‘flag’ texture

Bon fire  .




17 ß à 11

                               MOTION

Slight pink

Colour pinkèTexture: paint  brush strokes







both are painterly





11 ß à 2

Pink, White, painterly strokes, waves

KITCH.
nice cat
self portraiture?
is everything a
self portrait?



HUNTER  AND  PREY?

                     framed










.similar line details
   and curves
. Both are framed to
   some extent
. similar colors are in
   the hints of white
   and pinks.



2 ßà 40



Specemin .



                     expressive
            quick
               drawing styles




40 ß à 26

         lines cutting through, dark area to the left,
                  space blocked off
             Abstracted versions of real scenes .




OBSERVER AND OBSERVED?
(SUBJECT    AND    POINT OF VIEW)

Blue and black lines criss crossing dark shapes



accumulation & dispersion
Left & right


                        Similar colours
                           and shapes






Abstract
 Marks
  Pointillism/Cubism



26 ß à 24


                                    blue

        linear


The perspective of the image and depth of field.


Robot .                                                           Constraint
                                                                        trapped



24 ß à 19


Sky Scraper .
           
          figure
           in disfigurement




19 ß à 35



piNk !










   Sequence  











Soho





35 ß à 39


Paper  .






















partial object
(within frame)



39 ß à 41

Free
NURTURE


                                                                                            re occurring
                                                                                          nature

                                             expressed light / shadow

                                      growth


                                              plantlife

                                    abstract
                  version / print
                  -  nature
                     freedom

The next step - and one which will take a lot of time, planning and energy, is to seek 41 fellow art students who will each be asked to make a piece of work in response to a pair of these descriptor sheets. I am excited by the thought of working with people in this way. 

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