Edge and line, disassembled, cobbled together, ruptured grid (fragmented and painted on the wall--EUC)

Watercolor grids again

These are helping me sort out the wall piece in the EUC....

Watercolor grids

In the past week or so, my studio has turned over--from a space centered on production to a space centered on inquiry. An utter disdain or, more aptly, revulsion toward perpetuating what I make by simply making more (just to make more) in tandem with a move out of my typical studio to a new space necessitates a different approach.

The inclinations toward expanded notions/definitions of painting remains.

Some fixations and their manifestations:

1. materiality--how is materiality exploited/used to it's fullness and how does the nature of any given material dictate my movements/my use? Manifestation: grid paintings which seem the beginning exploration of engagement with the expanse (wall, paper, surface)
2. engagement with the expanse--how do I engage the actual expanse of the wall as well as the surface of paper, canvas, cardboard boxes, cloth, etc. Does covering change if the substrate changes? Can any given substrate have a myriad of approaches and might differences enunciate equally? Manifestation: Grids constructed in a piecemeal manner over the wall--parts painted, parts collaged, parts extending into the space
3. methods of making/creating rules out of inclinations and following them through to see what happens Manifestation: made up rules, new ones arriving each day out of working
4. painting practice as being comprised of numerous activities--not one being THE manner Manifestation: rule making, alternate substrates, fluctuation between collage and painting/the two mediums conditioning the other, writing, blogging, writing words

Set of rules for making a flat image/flat picture (Two)

To review rules look here.

Set of rules for making a line

1. with leftover paint, cover an unwanted scrap of paper almost entirely with a grid, (use a grid as it reiterates the expanse, affirming inherent materiality)
2. cut apart the grid bit by bit and piece together in as straight a line as grid lines warrant

Lines

This bush is the first thing one sees upon leaving the library. As I'd been thinking about line all day, I couldn't help but be a bit struck by the lines of yellow--snaking up toward the sky--as though in the midst of being pulled taut by some invisible filament.

Order

Set of rules for making a flat image/flat picture

1. take scraps (given and available) as subject
2. begin by gluing piece on top of pile to the let and top of substrate paper
3. add/glue each subsequent piece/shape (in the order it surfaces) directly to the one prior--lining the new shape up w/exact edge of the one prior--
4. continue on in above manner and tilt subsequent pieces as necessary to fit into the edge of the substrate
5. allow actuality of substrate (in terms of size) direct placement--and therefore overall image

Piecing/Building a painting, on the wall--painted and pressed against

Images of the day in the studio