practice

just thinking about making 

so many things to cut down on

into fleshy crapness of paint at the moment 

diagrams rock 

trying to do one idea at a time 

some of them are still too many things going on 

but trying to maintain the agency of the diagram and not just be purely formalist though i am interested in the formalism of it - but there has to be the possibility of change - of it causing something 

still so many things to figure out 

i feel as if i am trying to bring the disparate bits of my practice together 

feeling positive about it 

some drawings seem pretty - i'm really unhappy about this 

still got to figure out about border - edges 

i like photography's crop - and like how drawings float in space - but want to try out some lines where they reach the edge of the paper 

this also allows me to bring in the photographic abstracts too - 

how could i make them real? physical? 

reading about modernism or new modernism - not sure what i think - 

i'm happy with how my practice is going so that is the main thing

i'm not interested in being perpetually avant garde - if this has already happened (new modernism)- oh well - I'm not a following fashion 

thought about - what work would i like on my walls - tried to make work for my walls 

I just tried to make modernist infinite fields - interesting as it made me realise that this isn't my practice

created a small book of lines - i'm trying to record as many different lines and arrangement of lines 

keep thinking about statements like "ideas abandon too soon" "lacks rigor" - these are motivational and help reflection