recoup.with.grief Painting

This is a painting that is pulling a few loose strands together for me… 1. Abstraction - it’s a more abstracted view of negative space (light through branches) so things are becoming even less recognisable which is where I think I am heading. 2. Distortion of source/subject - I have played with the source photo and mirrored it so there is a really interesting Rorschach effect with the white painted negative space shapes happening. But because I’ve drawn/traced/painted by hand the mirror image is not reliable. There are a lot of areas of discrepancy. 3. My What3words series of work - it’s from an image that I can geolocate using the what3words map app, I am working on a series of paintings inspired by photos I have taken that I can then be very specific about the locations using What3words, they are generally very banal or overlooked places. I love the idea that I am pinpointing a place (geographically with What3words and in time with the date stamp of the photo) where I have stood and where theoretically a viewer could then also go and stand, but their experience of that place will be very different according to weather, season, context etc and of course my ‘version’ of that place is then another step further in that I have abstracted it. A kind of traceable yet unrepeatable chain connecting disparate things together. The what3words location for this painting is recoup.with.grief, which given where I was, who I was with and things that have happened since now has a very nuanced resonance for me.

Painting:Acrylic on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:20 W x 20 H x 1 D in

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