MORE MORE
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Excess Collages
More is More
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These two collages are what I call Excess Collages. They’re quite large, made from scratch, and they’re embodiments of proliferation. Any detail, texture or colour that I was drawn to in a photographic image, into the collage it went. They were made with no planning. No arranging of the pieces before being stuck down. I just knew I had to cover the entire sheet of paper. This left room for spontaneity, which is very important in my process. Because I think WAY TOO MUCH! “What does this mean?” The dreaded question! I hate it.
MORE IS MORE. I have to think this way for my spontaneity to come through. If I want to explore a vein of minimalism, my brain starts aching. My choices raw and visible for all to see.
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These are the AMcQ oilbar drawings on canvas I mentioned in my last post. And tell me, is it wrong to like these canvases as they are?
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I made these four collages after Alexander McQueen passed away. Their intention was always to become large scale paintings. I never got further than oilbar drawings on huge canvases. I couldn’t face them somehow. They still resonate with me…they still feel incomplete….I still need to address this. I’m posting these images now because it’s the first time in a while that I’ve thought about these, as pieces, as ideas. Looking at them again has made me realise how much I still don’t know about these works. That’s very frustrating! I can never fully explain my ideas, and I keep telling myself that that’s the beauty of it all…
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I’ve been thinking about looking lately. Really seeing an image. I feel I do this with collage, but drawing from a photograph or an object forces you to look in a different way. It stops you scanning an image.
I have just completed this ink drawing of Guinevere, and I chose ink so I wouldn’t obsess over perfection in getting the drawing in proportion and perspective, like I’ve done with Stella in graphite. Naturally the ink drawing becomes awkward and grotesque because of the instancy and urgency. Her head’s too small, I can’t seem to draw hands, the dress is lumpy and uncomfortable. I’m not saying this image is rubbish or wrong because it came out of me, so it must be right on some level…
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Romeu Silveira
This is something quite special! I’m feeling all glittery and inspired from a lull in repetitive imagery!
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One of those early seedlings!
Collage from 2007
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‘Love Another’ 2012 pages 21&22
Georgio Armani ads HAVE LANDED.
Confronted by too much emptiness the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely shimmering?
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tenmagazine: A NOTE TO STREET STYLE PHOTOGRAPHERS AND THE POSEURS...
Seriously, why? Why the swarming mobs, the constant flashes going off in face (if I want to be blinded I will do so in my own time and on my own terms by pouring acid in my eyes). The angry sighs if you happen to step into a shot accidently, the blocking of every walkway because some bitch…
“Love Another” 2012 pages 17 - 20 PRADAlicious!
Oh Mrs. Prada! I do I do I do
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Marc by Marc by Marc by Marc Jacobs ads!
‘Love Another’ 2012
I bought the new issue of AnOther magazine yesterday….I best get motivated and stick cut stick! I may just start that issue too. So maybe I can complete at least one magazine before the next issue is released! Keep Calm and Carry on Sticking!
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Pages nine - twelve… “Love Another” 2012. AW11 AnOther magazine, The Gucci Ads.
The feeling of submergence is quite an isolating one. This process is quite an isolated one. I’m feeling quite isolated. Squid anyone?
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