Looking back through my journal I came across my sketches and notes made in the days and weeks following the Rena oil Spill in October 2011. Since the result, Just a Little Spill, is finally going to be seen in public for the first time later this month I thought it might be interesting to share these early ideas now.
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| Words are as important as visuals for me when I am conceptualising a new piece. I'll often have a working title before I have anything else, in this case Folly and Hubris. The working sub-title won out in the end though. I didn't end up pursuing representations of birds either. |
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| Exploring the ways oil can spread out on waves of water. |
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| Nitty-gritty details of stitching, felting and size. |
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| Photocopied from a book of Japanese prints about 25 years ago, and carried around in my pile of important papers until 2011 when it finally found a place in my journal among the Spill sketches. |
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| Stitching doodle |
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