'We are mere dots'

 

 

Using basic foam board hand stippled ‘dots’ of rust pigment have been applied. This plain white surface is a real contrast to the decomposed substance. Topographical aspects of place and how we cluster to the cities to sustain our daily needs are an aspect of these drawings that have unintentionally realised. These minute marks form a representation of how small we really are in relation to the rest of the universe!!

 

Revisiting Rust Pigment

 

I have recently revisited working with rust pigment. Syphoned from rusting metal this mark making medium embodies the cycle of decomposition. The elements have forced the braking down of this organic matter into another form. The rust elements combined with rain water still retain the possibility of sustaining life. Here in the jars it is stored ‘life’ begins to grow from the medium itself!  

Installing 'Presence' for Light Night Leeds 2012

 

Thanks to everyone who helped with the installation of my work for Light Night it looked fabulous on the night!

Nearly there!

Come on down and see my installation at Light Night Leeds 2012 5th October fingers crossed all the hard work will pay off!!
http://lightnightleeds.co.uk/events/existence/

Light Night 2012 & creating 'Existence'

'Existence' will be an installation consisting of 100's of hand knitted monofilament cocoons hung vertically within a space in Leeds Town Hall on the 5th October  This is a real challenge!Realising each cocoon is now taking me around 45 minutes. I am using every spare moment to make them. My very talented mum has offered her help; she now realises this task is not like knitting with wool!!

Counting!

Bags of cocoons!

All this 'making' 'counting' and forming of physical entities brings with it the satisfaction of creativity and the forming of an other worldly, matrix like environment, within the cocoons themselves and also the space in which they will inhabit!

Arts @ Trinity Festival

                                

  

                                                                               

Participants recreating the print of an apocalyptic scene onto the pavement at Holy Trinity Church in Leeds. This process was a direct response to an earlier interactive process I had created of drawing with raw materials; stone & charcoal onto sandpaper.  Engaging with the space around us participants recreated the image in sections onto the pavement with coloured chalk and charcoal. The exercise shows how much individuality we each have in our way of mark making. By using coloured chalk the scene was reversed in its theme to dark and foreboding to light and uplifting.

Synthetic cocoons in the landscape

I now begin to make many of these knitted cocoons. Each one is made with much speed; the more I make the easier the process becomes. They have an alien quality and begin to replace previous forms of stones taken from the landscape. The forms have been reversed the knitted monofilament that once encased rocks in previous work have now become a dominant feature. Taken out into the landscape they appear as an alien presence, nestled within the landscape the contrast of the synthetic and natural elements is highlighted by the sunlight.