Welcome to Private Studio
April 24, 2009 by Janice
As promised on Wednesday, here’s a peek at what happened after I cut up the painting.The 16 little cut up paintings became 3 assemblages for the Across the Tracks Blues Experiment Series. Look closely and you can find the pieces of painted Thai paper in the three Somerset paper assemblages below. What you’re looking at is raw material. Usually this is kept private until the “finished “form of it, whatever it is, is judged ready for public consumption, or exhibition. These are intuitive, unplanned, uninhibited, UNJUDGED marks and washes on paper. This is play. Better, this is play without expectations. This is me setting up some restrictions, some challenges, some questions….and letting go. There’s music that goes with the experiment. Music that brought this on. We’ll go into that next week. And while we’re at it, that part about suspending judgement? That, above all is the most important thing about Private Studio…and the hardest. That’s the part where you have to just have faith that the meaning will be found. That integration will come, and that your muse, and your heart are on the same team. So take a look, make comments, I welcome that… we’re just in the middle of this…and so far I am just as puzzled as I am excited. Just as uneasy as I am reassured. Just as much wanting to go back as to go forward. Yep. That means we’re on the right track. So welcome to Private Studio. It’s a place where maps are cut up, reassembled, tossed or made more deeply whole …it’s where we listen to our internal music and hope it doesn’t come up short.
Been there lately with your work?
And now, I really think we all get big pitchers of Naughty Margaritas. Make mine a Prickly Pear one. It’s Friday and it is not easy being naked in public…
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I’d rather see BIG PICTURES than drink big pitchers….
Grrrr
They look delicious..is it a deception?
No blowups ma cherie?
HMPH
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These are on fickr too… just for you to see close up.;-)
Thanks for letting us see your private studio… I learn so much each time I come here.
“where you have to just have faith that the meaning will be found. That integration will come”… Yep.
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Joanna.
You are always welcome.
It is a bit of an explore. I am looking for the “poetry” in it now.
Thanks for sharing before you are ready. It is really neat to see the work unfold.
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Thanks Fred,
I am going to look at them a while…already see some “possible maybes” LOL… I hope you have a good weekend.
Janice, these are fabulous! I love ‘em. I will have to head over to flickr to see them there, too. I was curious as to how these would wind up looking–they’re wonderful.
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Thanks Sue,
I keep looking at them and liking them more and more…
Janice,
Working at the Berlin University of the Arts I have quite a lot to do with artists. Most of them only produce their art when it’s ready and perfect. It is fascinating for me to be able to have a look into a private studio, to participate in the artistic process. Thanks for that!
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Ulla,
I am so glad you find it ” fascinating”. Process is the the life blood of growth in the studio. you must get to see wonderful things from your Berlin artists. Are the students fearless? Innovative? Can you see a pattern in what they make of their time and place?