Paint-ing and S p a c e

This body of work is an exploration on the relationship between painting and space (and painting in space).

Part 1. Painting

Seed-idea:

Painting = making of an image = Image-making

image = an abstract thing that is only and soley a visual mark. The reason we "read" it as "something" is because we make our own association with an image and the world.

An idea that sparked this project was that a still-life painting could simply be an illusion made of piled paint pigments, which means a painting is an abstract image that references the reality as a source, but what it really is paint and it essentially can not become anything else.

Accepting that an act of painting is an act of image-making allowed me to understand paint and painting from a different point of view.

A Chair in Studio, Acrylic on Chipboard, Spring 2014

Still Life as an Image (cheap paint bottles, a plastic bowl, chair legs, and other stuff on the floor in my studio), Acrylic on Chipboard , Spring 2014

Still Life as an Image: masking process, Acrylic on Chipboard, Spring 2014

Developed from "Still Life as an Image: masking process"

Still Life (a water bottle, a brush, and other stuff in studio), Acrylic on Chipboard, Spring 2014

Still Life, Acrylic on Chipboard, Spring 2014

Image, Acrylic on Chipboard, Spring 2014

Part 2. Space

This body of work was to create not only a visual experience, but also a bodily experience with paintings.

Notes:

space between images/objects and space between marks within an image
paintings (as objects) in space
location of things in space
object sitting in space as a volume/mass/existence
an object taking a part (or a role) in space vs. object itself