Many stages have led to this artwork. It began life as an interpretation of a lily-like flower, painted very roughly on a large piece of translucent drafting film with acrylic paint, applied with a broken credit card. I later drew into the image on the reverse side of the drafting film with coloured pencils, enhancing the marks and intensifying the areas that offered the opportunity for new development.
Once this was done, it was an interesting image, but was floating loosely, unmoored and drifting and I knew I could not be satisfied leaving it as it was. So, it was placed in a drawer, waiting for other ideas to incubate. Eventually, I decided the only thing to do with it was cut it up and see what could be done with the elements that I liked.
Once it was cut up there was another period of waiting and fiddling, rearranging, reorganising, eliminating and adding, changing the format of the grid until eventually I settled on this final arrangement – 5 x 5 panels, each 10 cm square. All the pieces with no or only small amounts of information were eliminated, saved for another purpose and another day. With what was left I wanted to have a sense of flow, of movement through the piece. There are no pieces adjoining one another that were connected originally, although it does look a little like it in places. I like the sense of disjoint this gives, makes it just a little uncomfortable.
When working out the arrangement of the panels, I had them on my green cutting mat, and realised I liked the green of the mat showing through, rather than a pure white if the panels were placed on white card or paper, so when I glued them down I mixed a little green acrylic paint into the acrylic medium I used as glue, and painted it on quite roughly, so there is an added texture created.
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Your inquiring mind, inventiveness and sense of design together make this a wholly engaging piece and a joy to behold. I don’t have any sense of disjointedness as it absolutely flows.
“Lily Deconstructed” sits comfortably in its own universe and is a real beauty.
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Thanks Julie – I wasn’t at all sure if this one would make it through to the other side! I had faith in elements of it, but as the original whole it was woefully incomplete.
Once I had cut it up, it sat on my desk for a long time, I would rearrange the pieces every time I went past, then gather it all up and put the pieces away again! The final paring down was where I finally felt comfortable with the arrangement. I do have quite a collection of the unused panels, some completely blank, others with a small amount of imagery, ready for something new!
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Whatever the back story was, this SERIOUSLY works. I forgot to say I like the greenish support so that was another inspired decision. There is a whole life in the waiting for the pieces leftover. I wonder what their artistic outcome will be?
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Thank you, I really appreciate that! There are any number of options for the leftovers – some may become miniature art pieces … there are ideas bubbling away!
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Knowing you as I do I have no doubt that ideas are bubbling away.
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Fascinating to hear the creative process.
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Thank you – this one was more protracted than some are!
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Absolutely stunning
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Thanks so much Rosie!
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