Whatever Boxes

Hm… I probably could have thought of a better title for them, but really, that’s what they are. So I had these four blank 5”x5” canvases that I had been able to purchase for only £1 each. A steal, if you ask me, especially since they were also already primed.

At first I had no idea what I wanted to do with them, and found myself simply putting them in different orders. I played with the idea of making them landscapes of London or something else associated with my new surroundings, but instead, they became something totally different. As I continued to mix them up, I thought up the idea of being able to put them in any order and making them work in some way.

I suppose there’s no real order to anything, but I feel being a perfectionist, there’s always some form of order. Even though the world is known for its chaos (I mean, really, Jackson Pallock?), but at the same time, I feel as humans, we make sense of our surroundings. With this project, I wanted to give anyone the chance to figure out their own order with my pieces. I guess you could say the idea is that I give you the pieces, but you help me with the art as well. It’s not just the artist who sees the world, but the viewer as well.

So here’s the final project:

It’s done in acrylic on canvas. I used masking tape to make the beginning lines, but as the project progressed, I came to more free-hand. I chose the background colors mainly because I had them at my disposal, and felt that they worked well together as primaries. I also have two warm colors and two cold. I played with the idea of putting white lines instead of black over the backgrounds, but decided against it, because the black is much more dynamic.

I simply chose an order for them, and if you look at them, you may see another pattern of some sort.

(These are just close-ups…)

There’s no reason to be trapped by putting them in some sort of square either. Really, go nuts, folks!

I apologize for the newspaper underneath them, but I didn’t really feel like moving them to some sort of white/plain background and rather like where they are at the moment.

As a preview for my next project, I give you these two pictures:

(note: I do not own these two images, thank Google...)

Let your imagination run wild as to what I’m doing. I’ll explain after I finish the first one. It’s almost there, but will need some finishing touches and such. I kind of already really love it already, even if it’s terribly out of my comfort zone.