I have been working. The small pieces are for Cambridge Artists' Cooperative Gallery, and for the show at RISD in October.
These small pieces are like the scales and arpeggios my piano-teacher mom used to have me play every day. They warm up the art muscles. Usually I place a favorite fabric and then the rest of the composition rotates around that.
The "falling Squares" have long been a motif for my smaller pieces. Do they belong in the larger work?
Two larger pieces are on the wall. This one is giving me trouble. I like best small moments of repeating dark/light rectangles. I think it needs more dark to stop the eye from wandering all over the place. Do the birds belong there?
However, this piece I like a lot. It is more still, more like the small pieces writ large, instead of a tangle of ideas. It needs more weight at the bottom, and on the right. Maybe I should just ditch the red piece instead of wrestling with it, and finish this.
These small pieces are like the scales and arpeggios my piano-teacher mom used to have me play every day. They warm up the art muscles. Usually I place a favorite fabric and then the rest of the composition rotates around that.
The "falling Squares" have long been a motif for my smaller pieces. Do they belong in the larger work?
Two larger pieces are on the wall. This one is giving me trouble. I like best small moments of repeating dark/light rectangles. I think it needs more dark to stop the eye from wandering all over the place. Do the birds belong there?
However, this piece I like a lot. It is more still, more like the small pieces writ large, instead of a tangle of ideas. It needs more weight at the bottom, and on the right. Maybe I should just ditch the red piece instead of wrestling with it, and finish this.
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