Showing posts with label stitched fused plastic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stitched fused plastic. Show all posts

Saturday, January 27, 2018

From Dining on Plastic to Seasonal Plastic





In December I put all the plastic bags I collected from charity shops, museums, supermarkets and the cheese shop inside one of the bags  and stashed it under my work table with the idea that I am going to do a snapshot of the months in plastic over the year. Not exactly dining on plastic, more seasonal plastic.  I wonder whether the attitude about plastic will change it, whether marketing, colour, size will change as the year wears on?

I love that the Waitrose bag had a winter theme and I chose to put some complete writing on this piece in case I decide to use it for something I am submitting to. It says holiday, winter, joyful abundance to me.

I worked in a furious sort of way following ideas one after the other for a day and half.  These are not in order of making. 

Having just spent a long time working mostly in an observational way, I enjoyed playing with all the same elements but in an inutitve and differently restricted way.  Most of these are first drafts.  I may free float them, put them on a surface and use paint to make them relate to their edge differently.  


front

back
 I wondered about mounting this one directly under glass so you could see both sides.  Which is 
'good plastic'?


And is there a male or female aesthetic in collage, in plastic? 

Thursday, March 5, 2015

Freedom and colour studies




Can you explain why these playful pages are so effortlessly, honestly exhuberant and why (and how) I can believe in them?

Friday, January 31, 2014

Abstracting and turning

So I continue to explore the theory that if you start from something you know and have seen then abstraction becomes believable. I began with my ruler and looked for the shapes.  Turning reality on its side was obvious.