Studio progress - DEMO "Palimpsest"
I had reused a work made up of three canvases from the September seminar, and bleached out the design before priming and then spray painting detail from tablecloths and lace again. However, I still wanted to introduce the ‘writing’ element into the work somehow. I had made marks, like unintelligible writing but I felt it still didn’t communicate the layering of written documents well enough yet.
Triptych as the work arrived at my DEMO residency
After whitewashing the work, I resprayed some tablecloth detail and then sewed lines through 70gsm printing paper which had a natural fleck and looked handmade. The ends of the thread from the sewing machine left ‘squiggles’ which I quite liked. I then glued them to the canvas to represent lined parchment paper. I spray painted a border from a piece of lace fabric to create a ‘bound book” border effect. I decided to lose one of the canvases and just show them as a diptych, referencing layers of previous use, the lined paper remaining blank for all the histories of women’s (art)work, yet unwritten.
Final Diptych