logs

these are the logs from the church in my street - a nice variety of segments to work with:

i need to replace my orbital sander before i get to work on these, so i can smooth out the surfaces for some painting. and i'm still considering embedding mirror fragments, but most likely they'll be shards of glass rather than the circles i was working with for the first idea of synapse. perhaps the glass shards will work in conjunction with the abstract painted patterns. we'll see. something to experiment with.

the reason i'm expressing my initial ideas for these sort of studio experiments is to open out the whole process of my art-making practice. often i start with a rough plan, an idea, a thought, and then it wends and winds its way toward a resolution that may be some way off the initial step. but often it contains elements of it. also, the initial ideas may simply not be suited to a particular medium or time and may resurface later in more appropriate media, or when they have been more developed or refined.