Monday, 21 January 2019

unknownbinaries: 21/365- I did a pair of large-scale ballpoint...



unknownbinaries:

21/365- I did a pair of large-scale ballpoint pieces the summer before last, when I was still in Georgia, to try out the grid transfer-and-scale technique I had somehow forgotten that i knew, then forgot about the pieces over moving, before i got around to scanning them.

I should probably mat and frame them at some point instead of stuffing them back in the huge bristol pad they’ve been living in, but I feel weird about them because they’re both really on-brand for me and a wild departure in a way I can’t quite quantify.



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Wednesday, 19 December 2018

wolvensnothere: unknownbinaries: I finally finished this, then...



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unknownbinaries:

I finally finished this, then put off scanning it for another while because it had to be pieced together from four scans, which is never fun.

I adored Jeff Vandermeer’s Southern Reach trilogy, but the movie, Annihilation, hit me directly in the id with its overlapping of delicate natural beauty, body horror, and exploration of transformation and otherness. I referenced the Florida park the setting was based on, and wove the pokeberries throughout because they’re a natural mutagen and teratogen, as well as being tenacious plants of waste spaces, and a bright element i could use to tie the whole thing together.

Look at this, right now.



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