I’m exploring using light with my waxed works.
This is lit with a yellow light, but I’m intending to use white.
Category: New Work
Shifu production!
Getting quite a production line going…….and there’s more in the pipeline. But what to do with them? I quite like them as they are.
Spring in the Mountains
Spring has sprung in the Blue Mountains……and the nights are lit with starlight.
On my walks, I collected rocks to grind into ochre to die my paper for Shifu.
And here are the dyed papers…….
My first attempt at Shifu
Here’s my first attempt at Shifu. Shifu is a Japanese technique for making thread or twine out of paper. The thread is surprisingly strong. At one time Japanese people used to make clothes out of this paper thread, and they would survive laundering and the normal wear and tear that clothes go through.
This Shifu is dyed with soil that I collected in Broome, Western Australia. The colour is beautiful.
The second and third photographs are of some paper prepared for Shifu, also died with Broome red soil. I thought the form was rather beautiful, so I waxed it instead. There are lovely shadows cast by the cut paper.
Today’s experiments.
Today I experimented with bleach on coloured paper, and using wax as a resist.
Stitching
I have been joining some of my prints with some rather crude stitching. It adds texture to the work, and visually reinforces the presence of the hand.
Encaustic and rust monotypes
Here’s some more new experiments with rust, wax, tea and ink. I’m enjoying not feeling constrained by paper size and shape. Whether these eventually end up as mounted and framed work is beside the point. I’m learning more about the way these materials behave with every mark I make.
New three dimensional form.
More Monotypes
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New Work
Two new works that grew out of my experiments with monotype. This time I have used rusted paper, combining accidental and deliberative marks.
BOX OF BIRDS 