Branching Out
I am questioning how to present the work for the final show and I am noticing opportunities along the way. Two thoughts on my dog walk today
The long drawing is mostly just long and it presents various limitations - it needs 10 metres of wall space, it’s a bit long and monotonous, the edges are a bit of an issue, I am not sure how to let movement and light in. I thought about pinning the drawing to the wall in an undulating, wave like rhythm, which seems to solve all of these problems at once. I think the paper has the integrity to stay put if pinned with the silver pins I used for the first year show - they are really solid. This means also that I can be more selective about where the punched holes go, as they take forever.
I asked the DCS about taping or nailing the rambling drawing to the wall and Tom suggested blutak, which is an agonisingly obvious and much better solution. I also noticed I like the way the branches hold down the wet drawings as I make them in the garden and I wondered about simply presenting them this way. I could bring the branches and have part of the drawing on the wall and part of it on the floor held down by branches. I could also bring a drill and secure branches to the wall if need be. I will have help and I think it will all fit into the car
I don’t know if I want to bring the bokashi paper casts - I think I will because they are in progress and seem to be important to me. These are the least developed in terms of presentation. They seem to operate mainly as rhetorical devices, vanitas as Roz said. They are beautiful and they do make a point, they represent something. I just feel they need to transform into something bigger than itself in order to function well as a work of installation art. If I were to secure funding for the project I would consider 3D printing the beeswax on a huge scale or work with decomposition as part of the piece. Collossal cabbage leaves seeping into a pile of goo would be rather interesting.
