Wednesday 13 October 2010

WORKS ON YELLOW


 All That Consoles, Aniconic, Aperitif, Apostate, Before Jefferson, Crisis, Cube:1-2-3, Default, Deflexion, detail, Dots, DREN, Field, Flowers, Hatchet, He Did It, Hubris, ION, Laid Out, m;m&m, Napoleon, Nomads, Orifice, Orifice 2, Over The Sink, Pentagon, Pivotal, PLA-3, Quatra, Rooves, Rule Of Law, Scribbler, Secular, Sex, Skirls:1-2-3-4, Sleep, Smart Artist, Spirit Hovel, Squiggles:3-II-I, Text, Thud and Blunder, Tracks:1-2, Triumph, Via Dolorosa, Writing, Writing 4.  54 works on yellow.

Works On Yellow

I have been working on yellow for a decade, longer perhaps in producing several hundred drawings on yellow paper, of which for a reason now forgotten, I had an abundance. 

I drew, discarded many, but the pile grew and it was with a twinge of panic in 2010 that I saw my cache of yellow paper had dwindled to single figures.  This size-this Yellow became too precious to use - I have to keep my remaining few yellow sheets safe for that super-special drawing that will never come - and no good can come from that thinking.  I have to find another colour, I had to run out on yellow to finish.

Works on Yellow are representative of the series as a whole - these 54 may be the cream but I don't judge that with any certainty.

In Works On Yellow I see the germ and kernels of paintings and prints, projects, stories, love affairs and loss, my attempts and speculation, campaigns; and idlings on once current affairs.  I see obsessions that no longer obsess me, interests I don't remember having - and haunting, prompting me now, issues that have led nowhere to date. 



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The prefix 'PLA' that pervades Works On Yellow-online is an intrusive file-nomenclature which has a derivation I can't unravel.  Yellow paper from John Purcell Paper. 

8 comments:

  1. I love that section below....
    "I see obsessions that no longer obsess me, interests I don't remember having - and haunting, prompting me now, issues that have led nowhere to date."
    This is a great idea..I wish you the best with this.
    Louise Gains

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  2. Louise, you had me scratching my over-sensitive head for there IS nothing much below that final sentence ... 'is that the section what Louise "love"s I wondered?'
    But, I've got a grip of my nerves and thank you for looking Works On Yellow over.
    Having done the works, now is when the real work starts.
    Kind regards, I watch your progress with interest.

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  3. You forgot to say: click to make big.
    And you forgot to tell me to click on the individual squares... but I worked it out anyway.
    I'm fascinated by the Typography one...
    Sx

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  4. I should have said that I'm fascinated by all the writing ones...
    Sx

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  5. Miss Scarlet: I wondered about putting online-navigation instructions but couldn't manage an elegant solution on the screen. The elegance vs clarity conundrum.
    'click to make big' - ? - I like that you'd want it.
    A drawing is as big as it is, you can take a magnifying glass to them and museums often provide magnifying glasses. In the interim virtual environment I wanted to establish at least one base of scale, i.e. this is so x so big on the screen and this is how I think the work is best seen.
    There is a danger with art online, that the tweaked digital file mis-represents the original; the counter-argument going, that if the work is only ever seen online, why worry.
    DangIt S, I do etchings, I can arrange private viewings, anything you want to see bigger, can do.
    Off now to beat about the tumbleweed dust roaming free in the studio.
    Kx

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  6. I can arrange private viewings, anything you want to see bigger, can do.

    In my youth, I recall a feisty art lecturer saying something similar.
    Sx

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  7. ...Btw, you can tell that this is a sophisticated blog by the length of the word verification code: it's always eight letters or more.
    i.e: intingur

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  8. Naughty feisty art lecturer . . . Did it work?
    (That was the second class at art school.)

    re btw ... thx I don't deserve such sophisticated word verification, I'm going to set about disabling that - one day when I'm in the mood to tackle blogspot's fierce settings.
    Kx

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