Grids n' things

finished version from previous post...



combining and reworking older images- i think we'll be doing a few more things along these lines, reworking older images from parts into a whole. still seems like the building/layering/decimating imagery process has been good for generating ideas, though i think some of the final works are facinating formally but don't hold up conceptually yet, i think this can be pushed and be made clearer, though to be fair i don't think it's clear to myself yet. the opportunities opened up by working this way are exciting though, so i think we can work through the summer on getting the ideas together.

this one below is one that didn't really seem to come together, though again there's some possibilities here anyway. could be chopped up and reworked again, too.












sketch, possibly towards a postcard



project with mark rice- one of these was sent to micah too, i may try a few more people, too see where it goes. i sent this one out before we started with the grids, which is a little strange but works out. pretty much dominated this one, should be interesting to see what mark does.

War in Heaven II (images in progress)

These are the most recent work on the War in Heaven, at this point a war between living, dead and undead figures. Oringinally we were thinking of making these as long horizontal strips, to be combined, possibly in rows, but eventually as you can see when you scroll down, we decided to combine them, similar to how the gridded work was going. In these works, I think it will still be important to keep the horizontal compositions reading left to right in the rows even with some parts overlapping- that is, to let things bleed over on adjacent panels to the left and right, but try and keep the divisions between panels from top to bottom strong.

Some of the focus of this has gotten lost in the burping out of ideas, but I think this will get pulled together when thinking about them as whole pieces. This also seems to work with our way of building up and tearing down imagery. Especially as we start to run out of my terrible prints from OWU to paint over...