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My Name is Yellow
Frame painted with acrylic; pencil, collage and ink on paper, 53.5x70cm. This painting accompanies an original poem called: Sing your name. My name is Yellow. Sing your name, child. Sing your name the way your mother did when she chose it, full of hopes and dreams and wonder at what you might become. (whispers) …Yellow. Sing her name. 'My little sunshine... I will swallow you in the centre of my petals, my black-eyed susan. All four walls vibrating your name’. Yellow. She is here! A little sun-king. To love and to hold ’til death does its part. To absorb the brunt, to shield what the light might wield. Sing your name. (whispers) … Laurie. My name is yellow.
Other works
Label and Image Sorting for 'Better Half' idea
My process is a bit like paper dolls or marionettes. I draw a series of figures, cut them out an layer them. I also scan them, create digital transparencies and layer them on my lap top to be able to experiment with many compositions before committing to creating them on a larger scale.
Gender Card in process sketch
Gender Card in process sketch, 63x96cm. So many of these 'titles' are really the beginning of an entire series. I think I've got about ten years of work dancing in my head. This is my first try to create a large scale playing card, inspired from the title 'better half'.
Homage to the Yellow Wallpaper_1
'I never saw a worse paper in my life. One of those sprawling, flamboyant patterns comitting every artistic sin.' Digital sketch, single tile to be repeated as wallpaper pattern. All of the wallpaper pieces were originally inspired by the short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892.
Homage to the Yellow Wallpaper_1 (quad design)
'It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study...' Digital Sketch, quad of 'Homage to the Yellow Wallpaper' design. My wallpaper pieces were originally inspired by the short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892.
Homage to the Yellow Wallpaper_3 (quad design)
'...and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance, they suddenly commit suicide - plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.' Digital Sketch, quad of another possible version of 'Homage to the Yellow Wallpaper' design. My wallpaper pieces were originally inspired by the short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892.
Homage to the Yellow Wallpaper_2 Floating
'I determine for the thousandth time that I will follow that pointless pattern to some sort of conclusion.' Digital Sketch, another possibility for a 'Homage to the Yellow Wallpaper' design. In this one, the woman is floating away through a design of levitating women. My wallpaper pieces were originally inspired by the short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892.
Homage to the Yellow Wallpaper_1 in progress
'The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering, unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight. It is a dull, lurid orange in some places, a sticky sulfur in others.' Homage to the Yellow Wallpaper painting (detail of continued progress), 30 X 40 cm, ink, pencil and gesso on paper
Fleshy X Wallpaper Design
'There are things in the paper nobody knows but me, or ever will. The same shape, very numerous, it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about, behind that pattern.' Digital print, prototype plans for large scale textile print (could be fabric to cover chairs, or wallpaper)
The Split
At the outset of this project, fully in the throes of PTSD myself, I experienced a fertile subconscious flow of images, from which a pile of titles for works of art emerged. These words that were quickly jotted down to capture an elusive state of mind have begun to evolve into drawings and mixed media works. They comprise allegorical illustrations of out of body experiences, and the replication of figures, that become a graphic decor to embellish the house of the lost spirit.
For the Streamers Project, I will choose titles from the cache I created and draw the story out, using the interacting figures on range of media: paper, fabric, and working towards the installation of domestic items like wall paper and lampshades. Ultimately I hope to arrange an exhibition locally, together with social services organisations, to raise awareness of the prevalence of psychological abuse within the tapestry of domestic violence. UPDATE on December 6th: I have arranged with social services of a city outside of Palma de Mallorca to exhibit a selection of this series and to hold several talks with local adolescents about how the work addresses abuse.
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