Category: mixedmedia

Posted on

@ponor #twitterArtexhibit

http://twitterartexhibit.org/

ponor twitter art Moss Norway@ponor

CURATED BY
David Sandum

FOLLOW
Website: www.twitterartexhibit.org
Twitter: @twitrartexhibit
Facebook: /twitterartexhibit

Twitter Art Exhibit: Moss is an international exhibition of original postcard art benefiting Home-Start Moss, a nonprofit organization helping families in need. Home-Start believes that every child deserves the best start in life. By matching experienced volunteers to families with young children, Home-Start provides support that is free to the family, confidential, and based on individual needs. Volunteers do not make judgements or tell the parents how to live their lives; instead, they try to encourage confidence and independence, and help families build their own networks of friends and other support.

Twitter Art Exhibit: Moss is the fifth instalment of an open international exhibition of handmade postcard art for charity, donated by hundreds of participating artists from around the globe.

Social media plays a major role in Twitter Art Exhibit. It is our intention to tweet, share, seed and promote our artists to thank them for their participation, and to make this event a huge success.

The event will be highly publicized and well attended by art buyers and enthusiasts, members of the press, local artists and the community, as well as by the staff of Home-Start Moss, and the families they support.

Home-Start website (Norwegian):
www.home-start-norge.no

English (UK):
http://www.home-start.org.uk

Posted on

14. closerUps

Here’s a series of pix to show some closer views and a better visual explanation of how the whole thing is looking so far. To see a larger view just click on any image :)

Posted on

12. InPonorland

 

ponorhatter

Right, here we go with this thing :) – I’ve been a bit fuzzy about this project (Project 1) not because I’m uncertain, but because of the way I think about things – I tend to let things evolve. (More about that some other time.)

First, I made what I called a “backboard” to work from – a smaller version to use as a starting point for working up into a larger canvas. I stretched linen canvas to a board, ruled off eighty squares and painted some in some colours to start. Then I assembled some objects. It took a while to choose and collect interesting, suitably-sized and coloured objects.  At one point I had enough for three paintings and had to put things aside. Why all the small objects? The simple answer is I have a love/hate relationship with stuff! I am curious about what people collect and what they throw away one of the oldest forms of European painting styles is the Still Life . There’s also the practicality of making the visual image work in this instance.
 
If you make a painting you will usually find that there are areas of the canvas that are very much less “busy” than others. For this project to work, I needed to make every single square important and interesting as the whole composition has to work from a viewing distance of some metres as well as functioning in the tiny detail once the finished canvas is divided up into smaller areas. This isn’t something painters tend to have to think about, as a painting is usually made to be looked from a fairly fixed distance. So this means there’s going have to be a fair amount of painting going on and why it’s taking a while – I’m now about a third of the way through… fingers crossed!

The original idea was then to cut up the canvas and put the eighty pieces up for sale as separate artworks but also being a part of the whole work nevertheless. Why? One answer is that it’s very hard to sell original artwork online, not least of course because anything original and hand-crafted tends to end up being expensive. You’ve only got one item to sell after all the work you’ve done on it.  Ironically, this of course also increases its value, and is why people choose to invest in art.

Another answer, is that the concept of making a larger work and cutting it up appeals to me as it fits well with ideas/themes in some of my previous work. Also, I think it’s quite appropriate for the net. I really like the idea of people who consider buying one of the eighty pieces being interconnected.  I might make a website of all the finished paintings together before sale too, can imagine some nice moving links, but that’s a bit beyond me technically.  (Ideas on this appreciated just let me know .)working

When I first starting talking about making this I got some terrific and helpful feedback, (Thanks again!)  Also, I got some great suggestions. One was about framing, suggesting framing the whole thing before cutting so that the edge and corners pieces have the frame attached.  Also, lots of you thought of making a good quality print of the whole before cutting it up.

Work in Progress