lines

interested in the diagram being an agent of change 

modernist abstracts just be 

like building sites as there is change - temporarility about them 

like the whiteing out of lines as disrupts space of the picture, adds depth but is also on a surface above the line 

like the dotted line as this is something provisional, something that will happen in the future

was trying to get a system with the lines, drawn with a ruler and had to have corner and not touch the other lines

added more broken lines but they looked better whited out 

really like the grey 

reminds me of concrete 

many buildings in the old town have their windows and doors filled in with grey concrete so no one can live in them - to prepare them for demolition

wanted to add red as important 

want to do one with just grey lines - like the fleshy crappiness of the painted lines

think this one as too much going on in it - not sure - may get trashed. 

been looking at blinky palermo and there is a red rectangles on white that he made this sort of relates to that and some other diagrams that i saw

interested in how the dotted lines could be more independent of the red circles 

pleased with the simplicity of this one

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these works are very small 

tried doing some vVERY big ones but this was not right 

have to do them a big bigger but maintain the delicacy of them - the fineness of the line 

pleased with the ones i did when i just left space on the paper instead of filling up the space - made the same work on the big paper but didn't enlarge the lines

interested in complexity but don't want to make fields 

arrow diagrams

  

i like the energy, dyanmism of the arrows - reminds me of deluge by da vinci and gordan matta clarks arrow drawings. 

Can't decided about the "visual pleasure" of them. But, I think too much and now is not a time to reflect or contextualise too much but a time to make. 

they are all very small but may make them bigger - do larger ones with greater range of detail and with some thick and thin lines and lines of different colour or tone. 

Warhol might like it

cut lines instead of drawn lines - getting away from the trace of the human gesture, but still unable to escape from it as the real trace is the cut and the placement.

with the first one I was just exploring cutting and layering. I like how the light made the lines.
with the second I wanted to lift off the surface by adding a different tone - not sure about it here but another avenue to explore.
the third one i like. I like the sparseness but need to have some longer lines - too many of the lines are all the same
with the 4th I wanted to explore density and a bit more energy - prefer in real life holding as you can move it in the light creating different amounts of shadow. In this one it was interesting to cut off the lines that extended beyond the frame [photography's influence]

capitalism and being an artist

Couple of days ago started thinking about selling artwork - why do it?

Throughout history the artist has by and large been subservient to wealthy patrons e.g. Medici. The artist has created artworks that are now collateral in our banks. These banks exist not for the safe keeping of our money but to maintain the status quo, a status quo where the gap between rich and poor is increasing. To take another slant, we proport that life is freer 'the free west' but we at every corner relinquish our freedom, for example the right to demonstrate. I can demonstrate but face possibly deportation, loss of earnings, and none coverage of any medical inquiry arising from demonstrating. I am labelled with many different numbers. My ability to live outside of society is near impossible. It is possible, many we regard as drunks, or drop outs, do live to a large degree outside the regulations of society. A society that is increasingly fitting into the model of a city life. The city with many regulations that control people to a much greater degree than in the countryside.

Now the artist is ever increasingly emulating the business man, or the corporate culture; web site, resume, corporate clients. Public Art, another slant, on how artists serve business. The site on which public art is placed increases in value. Artists themselves move into studios where they are a property developers dream, they again increase the property value and get kicked out for higher paying businesses to move in. Artists again another cog of the capitalist business model.

Even now after the financial crisis, governments are ineffectual in transforming the system to benefit the majority of the populous. There are many compelling reasons to support the financial industry but on a true playing field business that fail should be allowed to fail, (not thrown money at), therefore allowing better perhaps more cautious business to come to the forefront in the situation.

The artist a willing participant in this game of commercialism. I hate private views of my own work. I wait around chat to people, the power is not in my hands. Waiting around for someone to snap up my work. I will know nothing of this rich person who can do whatever they like with my cared for artistic babies. Should i now continue to sell my artwork? Let it be possible colateral in a bank vault? No, maybe I should just give them away to whoever I consider should have them. A real connection. A real exchange.

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this me trying to figure stuff out

recent things

pleased with how things are going at the moment. art wise feel much clearer. Time away from rest of the world is hard but does make a difference.

this is only part of it - as i couldn't fit all of it onto the scanner but it communicates enough. i liked the curved of the paper and then the stick attachments really worked for me - there are only three which made it super cool.

This is Pia's photo which she gave to me when she left China. I really love it as an object with the removal of the surface at both top and bottom and the slightly folded corners. Feel that it is important 

idea for later

theo's painting