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Layers and Movement | |||
Through out this series of work I started from scratch, putting aside what I had been doing in years before, building up new techniques and working methods. I taught myself a whole new language of mark making. This took place through drawings I did while listening to Steve Reich and Philip Glass. I made improvisational drawings where the music or sound heard enforced my hand’s movement, very much like improvisational dance or trying to fit a choreography to a certain rhythm. I stopped the mind from wanting to represent something, from wanting to make a composition and instead allowed it only to follow what it heard. This freed up my mind/hand coordination and allowed me to paint intuitively simply based on what feels right at the present moment. |
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From Music (Yellow on Black) 1, 2009, 125 cm x 80 cm, Oil on Canvas |
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From Music (Yellow on Black) 2, 2009, 95 cm x 49 cm, Oil on Canvas |
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From Music (Unknown), 2009, 120 cm x 80 cm, Oil on Canvas |
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From Music (S. Reich, wall piece, stages one), Byam Shaw, 2009, Acrylic on the wall |
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From Music (S. Reich, wall piece, stages two), Byam Shaw, 2009, Acrylic on the wall |
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Layers 1-3, 2009, 85 cm x 60 cm, Mixed media on Grayboard |
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Music Layers, 1-3, 2009, 75 cm x 65 cm, Oil on Canvas |
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