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<\/a>"Wheat Farming," Spill 2, graphite on paper<\/p><\/div>\n
My interaction with news and media is usually an abbreviated, interruptible, spontaneous series of clicks through websites and articles and images. I rarely read analog newspapers, and I rarely read an article through to its end. When I listen to radio journalism, it is often the length of my commute, not the interest or complexity of the story itself, that dictates how much of a story I hear. I am probably commonplace in my consumption of news media, especially for my generation. Nostalgia for the broadsheet newspapers remind me of my father drinking coffee in the mornings. I remember walking up to the breakfast table, after he had left for work, and seeing evidence of his morning ritual: the remnants of jam spilt on a page here, a ring of a coffee stain there. The sports page left open, or the funnies, or the local news.<\/p>\n
In my current work, I am doing careful and precise graphite renderings of spills of coffee left on the stove, splats of paint found on a paper on my work desk, or free-form watercolor paintings done by myself as a toddler. These abstract drawings are attempting to resemble the freedom of form and composition of their reference material, being drawn to, in fact, look like paint instead of graphite, but only arrived at after hours of labored layering. I am interested in exploring these contrasts: what appears spontaneous being loyally rendered, what appears fast being slow and painstaking.<\/p>\n
I intend to try to utilize this same idea and overlay it onto a study of the daily paper. I will use thinned watercolor paint or ink to spill onto articles and pages of the daily broadsheet paper, and then render only the spill and the text which exists within the spill’s form. The slow and intimate act of rendering of spilt ink and text showing through will illuminate only vignettes and interrupted evidence of the full story. The drawings themselves will be layers of process, the original speed of the liquidity of paint, and then the precision and engagement of redrawing it in graphite. The drawings will both appear abstract and ambiguous, while the weight of the text will function as a sort of anchor, recalling a particular narrative, a particular time, a particular point in the daily news.<\/p>\n
<\/a>"The Gulf," Spill 1, graphite on paper<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My interaction with news and media is usually an abbreviated, interruptible, spontaneous series of clicks through websites and articles and images. I rarely read analog newspapers, and I rarely read an article through to its end. When I listen to … Continue reading