Spin (Newly Born), 2011
Newspaper, gouache, gel pen, spray paint, 37" x 32.5"
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The fringing reminds me of the reason those frontiersman buckskin jackets have fringes - to draw the rain off the body - it drips down off the fringes, rather than soaks in. The touches of colour are like a liquid, or something less physical, seeping out, ready to drip away. The central colour is core heat, like inside a volcano, or a very very vivid sunset foretelling a change in the weather. The delicate strips of paper will move gently as someone walks past. The newspaper will age and yellow. As a material, it reminds me of its use as wallpaper in the humblest of dwellings, layers on layers struggling to keep out the wind; the way wallpaper can come off at the edges....
That's what, from a distance, it says to me. In the context of her other work, that reading changes.
1 comment:
I never knew about the fringes having a function! thank you so much -- I love to learn new stuff, especially by accident
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