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Category: Painting
Shoreline Form
This is a sculpture made using basketry reeds as armature to sketch out its form. It was made without pre-planning as I wanted a form that would freely evolve, and one which would work visually from all positions around it. The armature was covered with many layers of plaster, paint, and paper towels all bound together by the wetness of the paint, until it became this curious fish / skull-form with a dangling, floating, paradox of an eye that can be both pendulum and rotational.
The surface of the materials dried out to a firm bone-like density that can be worked in many ways. So I considered it all-in-all a satisfactory artistic experiment.
The drawing followed after the sculpture—a record of the project as an illusion of a 3-D form on a flat paper surface; which is in fact what the photo also does to the skull: both presenting and denying at the same instant, its existence as a form in real space but eliminating the dimension of time. It’s for the eyes only: only in your imagination can you now move around the object or set its eye in motion.
Fillière © March 22 2019
Guilty as Charged
I’m guilty as charged of painting, frame, still life, table construction, room colour, photo. This is the east wall of my kitchen.
Portrait as Poem
The watercolour is recent, June 2017.
Deep, Deep
Deep, deep how deep can we go and whom do we know whom we know we think …
(We start out with such endearing presences, and can’t figure out how we lose that charm).
A Thorny Patch of Love-Prick Rose
In its Shakespearean Gardens, Stratford, Ontario there’s a striking sculpture of The Bard. I had tried to make a watercolour of it which failed miserably, until I attempted a correction with pastel, whereupon it suddenly came alive. This is a tale of that process.
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