This piece started as a drawing for painting- typically rather than working directly from a photo reference I will do studies and drawings from various reference images before distilling these images down into a painting.
Gone Fishin’
The reference image here is a still from a film Go Fish, from the moment an extra walks on screen that looks eerily like me, or my idea of ‘me’ at least.
She isn't credited and is only on screen for a few frames- so mysterious!
I had the stills saved in my phone for a year before conceiving of this piece, one of many curios
brought out to
illustrate stories
told at pubs and
dinner parties.
Who is that?
The reference image here is a still from a film Go Fish, from the moment an extra walks on screen that looks eerily like me, or my idea of ‘me’ at least.
She isn't credited and is only on screen for a few frames- so mysterious!
I had the stills saved in my phone for a year before conceiving of this piece, one of many curios brought
out to illustrate
stories told at
pubs and dinner
parties.
As I worked on the drawing I investigated the features of my doppelganger- no single one a carbon copy of me but somehow in relation to each other my face starts to emerge.
When I felt I had gleaned all there was to glean I sat back and realised that somehow she didn't look as like me as I had first thought.
As an experiment I decided to try redrawing some features to look more similar to mine, on tracing paper so that I could compare with the initial drawing.
After leaving it my desk for a few days while working on other studies I realised
Maybe the interplay between these two layers is more intriguing than the painting that I have been working towards
That painting never did quite come together
How can I display this?
Magnets?
F R A M E
F E
F E
F E
F R A M EPasted to the wall?
S e p e r a t e ?
Together?
I did use the magnet technique with a similar experimental piece, I think it is effective in the context of a group show in which
how and where the work
is hung is the focus as
much as the work is.
