I've been experimenting with paper as a form/landscape/3-dimensional frame for my drawings. Surrealism, science fiction, and animation inspire me quite a bit, but for some reason it took me awhile to figure out that these things I've spent so much time enjoying were as great of an influence as they are. My work seems to be taking a turn towards the theatrical. I've been making scenes, stages, floating landscapes and getting a lot freer with material (paper, at the moment). I suppose the moment I connected with paper as a material and not just a background was the moment my work was able to stand/float on it's own in a space as a 3-dimensional drawing.
Just to note: The reason I want to get off the wall is because I want to make work that makes you feel even more inside and drawn in than the more conventional paintings I've made before. Artists I've come across through this course have re-enforced this desire (Jean Dubuffet, Robert Rauschenberg).
What this course has been getting me to consider is the implication a space has on the work, and site as a component of the work itself. These are not completely new notions for me, but it can be hard to juggle all the different considerations one must have when making. The discussions we've had have come at a good time. As strange little narrative objects the air of mystery and frozen theatrics around the work is quite important. I'm still considering ways the viewer can stumble across/encounter it. I want the viewer to be strangely surprised and intrigued. That might be a quite tall order, but that's want I'm working towards.
I would like to try building a room/small simple house where there's a small drawn world inside. I'm not really that attracted to the though of bigger, but definitely VASTER. I was very inspired by Mike Nelsons "Corral Reef".
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