Presenting Nervous.

Presenting my final piece for the warm-up project.

I'm still very behind with my blogging as you may know, but this is the last one for my previous work (final). We had to talk about the project, how we got to the exhibited piece and a bit about it. I was happy with what I had achieved, however, the talking infront of the class was not my cup of tea.

It came to be my turn and after a long day, I was tired and nervously blushing. I just went for it and tried not to sound stupid (with a few little jokes in there to lighten the mood, like how working with dead flies was a new experience for me). It went ok, no one hated it, so that's always a bonus! They were more divided about whether or not they wanted it to be completed or if it was already finished as it is and I shouldn't cut it up, which I liked. Thankfully, some of my peers had left, which meant it wasn't as bad as I imagined it would be.

Definitely one of my better moments and more like that would be great. Although I don't really know what I'm doing at the moment, hopefully, that'll sort itself out soon...

Process Evidence.

The hand made touches.

Since visiting the Ashmolean Museum, in Oxford the other week and seeing Francis Bacons work in particular, I realised that I care too much about having a finished look to my work. In some of Bacons paintings it was obvious that at moments the paint had fallen and dripped onto places it wasn't meant to. Where he had then just wiped it and left it, not painting over it as if it never happened. I hadn't realised this until seeing some of his iconic pieces in the flesh (pictures on the internet never do justice).

With this final piece of work I wanted to change that. When priming my squares I did not care if it dripped, the marks from measuring were left and the excess canvas wasn't removed from the bottom. I also decided to leave a few of the squares knee-less (empty). It was difficult to decide at what point it was finished to look unfinished... If that makes sense (I know what I mean). I thought I would find it difficult to leave it how it ended, however, I guess it helped that it is able to still be 'completed' if I so wished. I can cut it up, fill in the gaps and finish my original plan sometime in the future. Although, I have grown to like it how it is. It is possible that I may continue to work on my issues with leaving things unfinished...