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Really feel happy today as re-looked and thought about Suprematism, specifically Malevich.

(this is from a blog - personally this one is too colourful for me)

What I read today - in more a list/note form than formed sentences - but quotes from 'Styles Schools and Movements'

art of pure geometrical abstraction 

trying to liberate the world from the ballast of the representational world

supremacy of the world greater than the world of appearances

reception of art was an independent spiritual activity, not political, utilitarian or for social purposes

'sensation of infinity'

creating and illusion of space and movement as the elements seem to float in front of the canvas

I am particularily interested in the white on white series - for the floatingness.

 - from MOMA website (or another blog that got it from there)

I'm interested in this extremely sensitivity, banality, where nothing is done but so much is said. There is something really important, to me, about this cool white on the warm ground. The other way around isn't the same at all.

Well what I am getting at is..... this play with surface, pure geometry is something that I am doing in the installations, in the diagrams + with the photographs. I feel that Suprematism is a sort of anchor to my practice - stopping me from going off too far on wild overly imaginative jaunts (which I have a tendency to do do). I don't feel that my work is just about geometry, it is about reducing words and symbols to the level of geometry, about leading the viewer into it and leaving them no where.

todays lines and more lines and some rectangles

Today, like yesterday I was struck by how much I liked the debris around rubbed out pencils lines, or just the effect before you brush away or the tiny pieces of used up rubber. Sort of reminds me of ploughed fields.

Went on to do lots of lines. Trying to generate space, but a subtly too. Not such much vanishing point but lines going across akin to lined paper, but not as regular. Keep thinking of SciFi movies for some reason. Anyway partly pleased with todays piece. Again I am going back to diagrams on paper as apposed to works that are purely photographs in their own right.

Though these look perspectival, the camera is just on the surface paper. The work is just lines going across the page with a rectangle or a square at each lines end.

Rather liked the white on the cream paper. The white paint that I have isn't white enough for my white paper, comes out cream and not the coolness that I want. On cream paper it works fine.  This moves me on nicely to my next post.