I am just in the process of mailing out drawing packs to other creatives.  I am doing this to create a new way to gain perspective on my current thoughts.  I guess I am trying to find some clarity and see how other respond to images that I am playing with and working on.  

If anyone is interested in being part of this process then please let me know and I will send you a pack and instructions of the project.
 

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I am currently working part time for The Fruitmarket Gallery here in Edinburgh.  Their new exhibition has just opened with some seminal works by British and American artists.

 

 

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My discoveries and experiments within the last month have continued.  From these ideas and findings I have started to realise how my work looks at the idea of potential or possible potential.  On understanding what where or how much potential might lie within or exist I explore ways in which this potential can be manipulated or released.... 

Currently lots of avenues are being explored and new potentials being adopted.. 

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So looking at my results from these experiments I have started to bring elements together.  With the voids I am now looking to see if I can get the similar effects I have seen in the melts.  hence I am now experimenting with bleach and its common use for removing colour.  So continuing with the square paper but now creating the voids similar to the xerox paper but this time letting the medium eat away at the space whilst creating a new space.



I am also looking at how with the melt series I can...
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Whilst using the xerox paper I started thinking on how I could reverse the process, so instead of taking the ink of the paper rather trying to re-apply the ink back to the paper... Here I have used graphite and polish on paper and tracing paper to see how this transfer could work.  I was really trying to re-create some of the effects I had made in the xerox voids whilst also seeing how the new mediums could work..

            

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This process of working with the xerox paper and its qualities and flaws allowed me to keep on discovering new ways in which to expand these ideas..  He are some drawings developed from the voids..

    

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On duplicating my original drawings it gave me thoughts as to the use of the xerox paper.  The dusty texture it creates when scraped was similar to the dust I felt you would find within a space you could not see or access.  If you did access it would be dust that would aid the claustrophobic feeling and with its choking qualities.  I decided to use the paper and manually create duplicates through using the same size and shape piece of paper.. This in turn was the square which has been a const...
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My experiments and development of the escaping space have produced some intriguing shapes and forms.  I have played with different contents of the frozen spaces, including salt and liquid acrylic as well as ink and water.  The effects have been quite different with the salt leaving crystals as the ink and water has evaporated and the solutions that have contained more acrylic have bled less than those with more ink content.  Some of the melts have sat and left a solid shape exactly where the ...
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On both sides of America there seems to be a move to alter the generic billboard advertising we are presented with.. Here are some links to projects on both sides of the States.

Walead Beshty: Passages part of the LAXART billboard take over in LA.  Check out their site for all the works on display: http://www.laxart.org

Staying on the West Coast and still in LA there seems to be so many billboards they just keep them coming.

The How Many Billboards: Art In Stead project brought together 21 a...

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Billboards are becoming the canvas of choice it seems for many artists.  Check out the work of French street artist OX and his abstract visions, I like his take..   


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