After seeing the Paul Nash exhibition, I decided to go hunt for some wood blocks to work on, as well as collecting the materials to make a panel.
I found this wooden block, which made me think of Nash's 'megaliths' that he placed in his 'unseen landscapes'. My tutor suggested making quick drawings of miscellaneous/geometric shapes, which I thought was a good idea since I read that Nash also did something similar to this as well. I found this rather difficult, since I'm still not very confident in sketching what is in front of me. It gave great inspiration, however, as I made two quick water color paintings of imagined geometric shapes in a landscape. I painted it thinking about the 'life of an inanimate object' and 'unseen landscapes' room of the exhibition.
I also went to the 3D workshop to make the frame for my panel. Then, I started to paint the wooden block itself. It was very fun colouring it slowly with ink, acrylic, and spray paint. I was able to get the layers I wanted. In the middle of painting I thought about my concept of trauma again, and I pulled up something I wrote about trauma in the past, and wrote some phrases from that onto the wooden block itself. Then, I layered ink on top of that. The idea of revealing some parts and concealing others is inspired by Unwin's Desk (2008) again. I felt that this gave some meaning: how trauma is usually hidden, and noted down in a very small script.. the inanimate wooden block also could convey how it is unmoving and trapped in time. Halfway through painting this block I looked at the frame that I made for a 'panel' I was going to make, and I suddenly had the urge to paint the frame as well. I feel that it would look great coated with resin. I will continue working on the block and perhaps the frame in the next week.
I found this wooden block, which made me think of Nash's 'megaliths' that he placed in his 'unseen landscapes'. My tutor suggested making quick drawings of miscellaneous/geometric shapes, which I thought was a good idea since I read that Nash also did something similar to this as well. I found this rather difficult, since I'm still not very confident in sketching what is in front of me. It gave great inspiration, however, as I made two quick water color paintings of imagined geometric shapes in a landscape. I painted it thinking about the 'life of an inanimate object' and 'unseen landscapes' room of the exhibition.
I also went to the 3D workshop to make the frame for my panel. Then, I started to paint the wooden block itself. It was very fun colouring it slowly with ink, acrylic, and spray paint. I was able to get the layers I wanted. In the middle of painting I thought about my concept of trauma again, and I pulled up something I wrote about trauma in the past, and wrote some phrases from that onto the wooden block itself. Then, I layered ink on top of that. The idea of revealing some parts and concealing others is inspired by Unwin's Desk (2008) again. I felt that this gave some meaning: how trauma is usually hidden, and noted down in a very small script.. the inanimate wooden block also could convey how it is unmoving and trapped in time. Halfway through painting this block I looked at the frame that I made for a 'panel' I was going to make, and I suddenly had the urge to paint the frame as well. I feel that it would look great coated with resin. I will continue working on the block and perhaps the frame in the next week.
