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Posts tagged ‘rust’

i took some of these little paintings for a little walk to the end of the garden…

the shaded spot where the rust continues to grow and bloom in hues of red, orange, sepia, violet and grey…

where a light dusting of algae turns the old wood from a dull brown to a vibrant shade of green…

where it is quite rustic, earthy, and unrefined in character…

i don’t have a good tripod for my camera, so i had to stay quite still to take these photographs, keep a steady hand, propped up against the nearby branches of a large shrub. i got quite cold after a short while and so myself & all the little paintings promptly came back inside again… but i did take a few photographs of these little canvases, the travel i-cons

bali 2010, 15cm x 15cm, collagraph on paper on canvas

nepal 2010, 15cm x 15cm, collagraph on paper on canvas

pueblo 2010, 15cm x 15cm, collagraph on paper on canvas

just thought it would be interesting to show them in a different light, a different context…

The longer daylight hours, as we progress towards midsummer, afforded a few moments early one evening to stop and examine this piece of found sculpture or installation (to add to my image collection) – something I have witnessed being constructed over the last few months. It’s a strikingly robust ‘builders’ intervention in the rural landscape; a construction seemingly put together for only practical purposes, but nevertheless it is visually and aesthetically harmonious, a textural mosaic of corrugated metal sheets… I trust that its collaborators will continue to add to it over the next few months; its future reconfigurement or final deconstruction, when viewed over the course of days or weeks, will be quite interesting to observe.

On closer inspection, any number of found paintings could be artfully composed with a camera…

all of which refer back to my ongoing  farmscape paintings…

modularity will be my modus operandi…

pirating the caribbean

February 4th, 2010


[trinidad 2010, hand-coloured collagraph on paper on canvas]

Trinidad has become the working title for this small abstract on canvas, as returned by an analysis & association of colour values (read more about my colour values)… the vibrant stripes do seem to echo the colours of carnival, and the structures of the makeshift tin and brick settlements or shanty towns of the Carribbean, places which, despite their obvious veneer of poverty, still resonate with a resourceful and determined spirit.


[trinidad, another view]

This is a photograph of the Laventille hills in the Port of Spain, Trinidad.

If one only chooses to see the poverty and crime associated with these supposed slum settlements of the Carribbean, then one would also miss out on witnessing the cultural homeland of carnivalcalypso music, and the uplifting rhythms and beats of steelpan bands…

Back in June 2003, I took this photograph of the neighbour’s old tin shed (which backed onto the boundary of our two gardens). Shortly after, the (then new) neighbour took down the delapidated shed. I remarked at the time that I quite liked seeing the rusty facade of the shed (from my side), to which he replied:  ’ah, you must be an artist’.

However, the neighbour, being a resourceful diy type, re-used what was salvagable from the wreck, and parts of it later re-appeared as a boundary fence at the bottom of the garden. So, I am still able to marvel at the myriad colours of rust in the metal corrugation, a found painting that I can see day after day.

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