Thursday, January 14, 2016

COMMUNION

#1512, Ink and watercolor suspended in polyvinyl resin glue on wood panel, 36" x 36"

Curiosity leads me to create a communal space for the individual formulas to intermingle freely in their wet state. Once limited to the size of the cell in which they expanded alone, they now reveal another dimension of their character by competing for space - some pushing others aside, some compacting, some merging with others.
A fascinating process to behold, and a whole new area of research to develop.
Various strategies of communion are represented here, many with the wood grain surface of the cradled panel revealed for the first time (instead of being covered by the usual 1/4" thick bed of glue) to allow greater differentiation between formula cells and communal pools, but more about that next time.....

24" x 24"

12" x 12"

18"h x 24"w


3 comments:

  1. These are GREAT! Love the bold colors and variety of application here. Is there an application I could do with my Second and/or Third Graders using more traditional products I'm able to work with in the classroom? I'm an art teacher.

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  2. This can be done with PVA glue and indian ink. The indian ink bottle have small pipettes which make it easy to drop the ink in. And the PVA glue is white, it dries to a milky semi translucent product. You can use small saucers/plates (ceramic) to pour PVA glue into and it takes a circular shape, and then they can drop their inks in. Once dried it can be peeled away from the plate. They could all then combine them together so each child has produced their own unique "cell" and when all pinned up together it creates one piece of communal art.

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  3. This can be done with PVA glue and indian ink. The indian ink bottle have small pipettes which make it easy to drop the ink in. And the PVA glue is white, it dries to a milky semi translucent product. You can use small saucers/plates (ceramic) to pour PVA glue into and it takes a circular shape, and then they can drop their inks in. Once dried it can be peeled away from the plate. They could all then combine them together so each child has produced their own unique "cell" and when all pinned up together it creates one piece of communal art.

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