More fused layers, with powders stenciled over flints found in ground. My camera has had it, the studio is grey and cold, the images reflect both these facts!! …
Creating more layers …
Digital transfer onto Bullseye Light Amber glass. Intended for one layer of many. Imagery from manipulated photos of performance at site of Nunnaminster…. images contain a sense of moment, keep this sense of moment, moment in a static form, how?
These paintings were part of the first stage of the project ‘A Woman’s Place’. www.womansplace.co.uk. The final painting you see hides a series of layers of imagery and text that relate to the site, its history and the performance project we devised for the site. http://www.xplosiveacts.com/exhibition.htm This page links to pages showing the early stages of the paintings, when the canvases where hung in the gallery blank and worked on during an exhibition, in the public eye. (Looking at these hidden layers now some seem very badly put together and naively chosen. However, the concept is one I want to pursue in glass.) The imagery relates to the history of the site as a nunnery, imagining the lives of the women who lived there and their relationship with their bodies. Archaeological maps, artefacts and physical geography of the site are also used. Many more layers were added until the final painting. This stands as a metaphor for the site, or any site/place, lying as we see it now but holding and hiding years of human experience and stories, perhaps particularly women’s stories. Passing trajectories, gone and forgotten.
glass explorations
Trying to explore ways of layering imagery and text into glass in a similar way to my early paintings. Seeking to create a very material object that obsures and reveals, that plays with textures, light and opacity to create hazy and ghostly glimpses, reflecting the transient nature of time, the inconsistency of memory and their relationship to the creation of place.
Multi media drawing experiments with ink, bleach, chalk dust and transferred imagery
Doreen Massey - Memory and Place
Geographer Doreen Massey argues against the idea of space as a series of static moments. ‘Places do not have single identities but multiple ones; places are not frozen in time, they are processes; places are not enclosures with a clear inside and out.’ She says that as we travel through space, for example on a train journey, we are travelling across trajectories, speeding across on-going stories. That histories linked to buildings or places are not fixed but are continuing as we pass through. History does not hold still, is not perserved in aspic, but is constantly in motion. It should not be seen in terms of a singular temporality, but have some sense of multiple becomings. A sense of movement, of constant motion.
Massey, D. 2005. ‘For Space’. Sage Publications, London. Chapter 11 - ‘slices through space’ - pg 106.
Flint Walls
Flint walls around the Cathedral Close in Winchester. They must have been there for many hundreds of years. Built from local flint found everywhere on the downs around Hampshire and filled with limestone mortar.
Flint was formed from silicate sediment, made up from the deposits of sea sponges etc, that flowed into holes bored in the limestone and chalk by molluscs and crustaceans when this land was under the sea many thousands of years ago.
What stories they could tell…
