Bone Matter(s)

The process of pulling together the Unit Three assessment has prompted me to read through my whole blog from day one and there is so much I had forgotten and things that have fallen by the wayside. I am also so pleased to see how far I have come; how confusing it all felt in the first year. I hadn’t forgotten about boneyards as I am still painting them in the studio but I had forgotten the idea I had had about looking into bone composition. With the tracing paper drawings of mycelium growth, I am wondering how bone decomposition might look as a time lapse or a drawing in response. Everything under the microscope has a beautiful, painterly glow so again I am feeling excited by the prospect of this avenue of enquiry. I had hoped to visit the Hunterian museum yesterday in London but didn’t manage to fit it in. Surgical specimens are frozen in time and different to the living, sprawling nature of mycelium but I am interested in the optics of a semi-decomposed bone. These screenshots look like ethereal watercolours or pouring technique paintings.