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| I still have my balloons in my studio (since January/February last year). I'm fascinated by the fragility and beauty in their ageing. I'm not sure how to use this yet, but it will come. And now I have fresh balloons (since May) that will also age - but people keep asking me if I've had a party? |
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| I'm finally really into my own work again and I don't want anything to come and disturb my focus. I'm prepared to eat just white cabbage and carrots for the rest of my life and at this moment I feel that I don't even need any appreciation or encouragement - just let me continue and I'll be happy ... |
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I continued screen printing all week - trying out some different options. I want to do something new, something different than before. For two months now I've felt kind of lost. I've been trying to get my motivation and passion back. Could it be the time of the year? Or that I spend almost no time working on my own art last autumn and summer (just working on commissioned art) - and that I just have a hard time getting started again? Anyway; last week was fun screen printing! |
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| Today we picked up the sandblasted aluminum parts and started putting the layers together. |
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| We are now busy with my portal at the metal workshop at KKV. Everything is proceeding as planned - and I'm so happy having Arta helping me for the third time with one of my commissions. |
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The Portal is to come with some theatre curtains. Right now, when just having a month to finish it all, I'm very thankful I was so very thorough when I sketched for this commission - I know what fabrics to use, where to buy them - and how they look in different light. It feels good not to have to worry about that.
The only thing that freaks me out a bit now, is that I promised the portal would come with a story ... and being me everything I'm coming up with at this point is dark and not very suitable for small children. I thought it would be great to connect this art piece with the new knowledge I got through the course I took a year ago in Illustrated Children Books - especially as this very preschool works with the fairytale, the story, as a central theme in the pedagogic. This way I will be able to really work with the Story/fairy tale as a concept.
Well, we'll see about that. I can of course always come up with something but I'ld rather not deliver something dull or worse: overly moralizing.
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This week and next I'm concentrating on the portal I'm sketching for the preschool. Having it in real in size - even though it is just in paper - helps me a lot. This art piece is not "just" to be a sculpture, but also something you can use and transform into a theatre. I've had my son (8 years old) interact with it (he loved it!) and next week I'll try it with smaller children.
As it is to be outdoors on the playground, I have to take a lot into consideration when it come to safety restrictions and construction. I'm learning a lot ...
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Normally I sketch in scale - like 1:10 - for big size commissions, but for this suggestion I've been feeling I need to see it all in real size as well. This is to be my art piece for the preschool I made the visual play with in spring (another commission than the one with Superman/Snowwhite)
I'm very happy having a bigger studio these days!
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I've tripple-checked the measurements for the hand rail - and made a real size 2D copy of the hand rail to test the fitting - to avoid any unpleasant surprises when it is time to mount the art piece. So everything should be fine ...
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It feels great to finally see this commission taking form in real size. But in some way I feel like I'm working on a miniature now... because compared to the one I made two years ago it is kind of small. Superman above is one meter tall. The Phantom having a luncheon from 2011 would be - if he could stand up in his full hight - two and a half meter tall.
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Snow white in progress; with distances marked out and then in a break when being welded by Arta.
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I was waiting and waiting for a rainy day to go back working - not been that many rainy days this summer - but finally I had to go back anyway last week (in spite of sunshine).
I'm now in the execution phase of this commission and it's exciting to see it all take form in aluminum. I like the way the aluminium looks in this phase in the workshop; rough edges, scratched and dirty with fingerprints. In some way I would like to keep it like this, but that's not what I promised to do ... so I can't.
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Last week I got confirmed the actual place for the art piece I'll suggest for the preschool. I managed to get just the spot I wanted! This time I'll go for something more sculptural - which is something I've for some time hoped to get the chance to do. I have already the idea (I've been thinking about this since the end of April..) and I must say I'm very excited about this project!
The other commission I'm working on - this one - is now in the execution phase. Which doesn't just mean hands-on - today was just meetings and phone calls ... But tomorrow I'll be in my studio avoiding all what meetings and e-mails imply!
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