The Offending Piece
January 20, 2010 by Janice
Graphite, Collage, Color Pencil, Ink, Janice Cartier, 2010
Never. Look outside and see if pigs are flying because never would I show this piece in public. If, and it’s a big if at the moment, I ever decided I actually thought well of it, it might be a bridge piece. One that comes after one thing and before another in a successful series.
We have not had time enough for that to happen… yet. This is still playing in the mud puddle time.
Clearly.
And here it sits.
Out there now.
One of my “pick 42 ways to fail”examples.
I was examining form last week in some drawings. How things fit together, movement. Parts of real things and part of an important piece of the large Deer Tracks multi paneled piece. Looking for essential energies, vibrance. And I have 2 series officially on my schedule that require comfort with failing. Trys. Starts and uh ohs, and guesses.
I have to live with those guesses too.
And suspend judgement.
Because we are just in the making of the story on those series.
Granted it’s a visual story. Visual stories have their own struggles with visual language too. Illusion. Suspension of disbelief. And they have basic elements like line and color and texture, to name a few.
So we play.
This is only a mild attempt at play. On a piece of paper. No huge leap. Small ones. Small play with ways of saying . Of taking something known to an unknown place. Of pursuing impact. And essences.
Hmph.
I have two more to do like this this week.
Central cores from major pieces I have done. I am deconstructing. “Translating” .
Because I have always wanted to.
And because my dear John T. Scott said go there. “It’s a very rich place for you”, he placed a finger on one of my pieces and tapped it. “Right there. That place in between.”
So that’s where those 2 series are going.
Sheesh.
And in public no less.
Can you see me shaking my head?
And surrendering…
To whatever “going there” is to be?
Are you good at suspending judgement when you are trying to shift yourself a bit?
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