I usually listen to Radio Three while I work. I don't know what's coming next and sometimes I actively try to ignore what is being played. When I lived in Kenya, I would listen to opera loudly on my walkman to block out the bugs that flew in my face as I drew. I didn't listen to the music, it was more of a wall of sound to help me respond to what I saw.
I began these collages with two things in mind. I wanted to combine fused plastic and paper in colour studies related to the music I was listening to. It was Bartok. I worked on one piece of plastic and then cut 2 pieces of A6 from it as a starting point for the two collages. In the first collage, I chose my paper before I began fusing the paper. I wanted orange. In the second I found the paper later. There was quite a lot of serendipity in my process and pulling it all together was the challenge.
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