walking from time to you
So terrible at putting up new stuff, sorry, This got done back in January. This piece is kinda a triumph for me, process-wise, as it started out throwing paint on an already wallpapered panel.
It told me what it was looking for, and, once images were found and manipulated, it got done. Yeah, so what, that’s what supposed to happen, right? Yes, yes it is, but that’s the thing. the “gettin” part. See, the piece said, “you need just this type of head”, and that was easy enough –2 grey’s images, reworked together. But then, what’s it needing? Pull up some of that flower wallpaper out of the splatter paint, see some flow, some movement, start thinking a lot on composition, and wait for it. take some older halftone work and work it in, like waters, it shoulder deep. Still all waiting for the image to start bringing things in, focus my search to colors, making this picture RED. Success at the bins, finding an old 70’s coloring book, providing me with subjects, background, a “place” for that head to sink into. Then it’s push and pull, selecting what stays and goes, and making a great decision for my head’s “hair” –because of the original splatter paint working with the head, I always saw the head as a her, with flaming hair. The piece had really grown away from that, like it started as “you could be mine” by G’n’R, but was turning more into “november rain”, if you catch my drift. The work, by then, with all the red, and images of trees and foilage, was screaming fall leaves, which were a plenty. Once I resolved the lower portion from the previous decision of halftone dots (which is kinda it’s weak point) with the laying flat face, it was done.
–an “in progress” pic of the same piece.–
–and yes, for you observant folks, that “red tree background” in the finished piece is used (albeit more manipulated) in the “zoey” plate of previous blog-post. With the finishing of this, and the sucess at the zoey piece, I will sometime make a plate with this image on it, that is, once I find the plate for it.–
–something like that.
So this is something that’s been sitting around, half done, for —let’s just say 2 years. It’s probably more than that. At the time when I made the image itself I was experimenting with CMYK images –how to break an image down in photoshop into the 4 channels and prepare them for eventual screenprinting. I was also then dabbling with image transfer techniques –I also had a lot of film (transparency film for burning screens, which I had quit using since I had gone to the veg. oil and photocopy technique of making films) and a lot of glass (cuz I was framing a lot of artwork). I had other interpretations of this image, just nothing that really worked so far. So it was in the spirit of “lets just see what happens” that I made this verson. There are two films sandwiched together on top of glass. One film is the Magenta and Black channels, which depict an old (and common) image of Death, coming out of the grave. The other film, done in the yellow and cyan, depict a common image of Jon Benet Ramsey in full child beauty queen regalia. Those who don’t know who she is, look her up. I’ll let you come up with your own interpretation of why the two have been combined, though I think it’s obvious. Anyways, after putting the glass together and putting it into a frame, I put it away until just this month. I think it was more about trying out something than coming up with a finished piece, and when i got to that point I guess I was stumped. Without it being in a window, or some light source behind it, it was too dark. So it got put away and forgotten about, mostly.
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