"Em... yeah... I'll name them quickly, otherwise I'll start rambling and they'll get lost. There's ideas about labour, about someone who does a job and they stick with it. In this painting, there's a tractor in a workshop, and the tractor's going to be fixed and the next day there'll be something else there. It's about starting again in a duty, a dedication to task. Another thing would be ideas about technique and craft, learning from doing -- that's how painters operate anyway, so a lot of the themes are to do with me working on it, the things I think about as I apply paint, as I try and form a light falling on a curved object. In the end, it's about the emotional and logical being intertwined."
Cosgrove though, doesn't seem to have a personal connection with the labours he dipicts. Carperntry and joinery work is what I aim for, as its home to me, and that i am used to looking at the hard labour in a mundane light,,. this way, I seek to alienate it to myself, to look at it through a glass with different eyes, but to also show the viewers how this is personal to me, that I am familiar, with the sights and sounds.
I aim to make vidoes, and paints. But unlike cosgrove I want the paintings to look more laboured, to look rough and worn down, just as the sand paper. I do not want an exact replica of a photo I take, I want more depth in the painting.
No comments:
Post a Comment