so i let these geometric ensembles grow out into something more 'organic', if such a thing could be said of them. there's a certain limitation with the page size on my moleskine notbook, meaning they reach only a fairly small size. i would definitely like to expand them out further into larger scale drawings, perhaps upwards of 50-100cm to really test out how they feel. but there seems to be something in them worth pursuing.
i'm not very happy with this particular drawing, but in some odd way, it still has some sort of 'something' about it. i dunno. the cubes on the branches seem pretty wrong, the one on the right is actually incorrectly drawn anyway and really grates on me. the whole thing seems quite a bit clumsy. i'm still thinking of options for the planned 'giant plants that are over-running villages' large-scale drawings. i was thinking they should be fenced off and tethered, as if the inhabitants don't know what to do with them, other than make some effort at containment.
more tree bondage imagery. i'm not really interested in doing figurative work in this particular wave of output, but it's sneaking in a little bit. still, the figure is buried under a mountain of hair, possibly to mask individual identity, possibly to evoke the pre-historic, i dunno, these are post-analytical musings. it does lend itself to possible scuptural form, in a robert gober-esque fashion.
this is in a slightly new vein of thought. these little 'system' sculpture ideas come up quite a bit. they pretty much drove my output for my honours year in 2008 and proved to be a fertile area. the sculpture for my solo show at seventh (Plane of Composition, 2010) utilised this sort of model, and it comes to mind especially here because of the water fountain element.
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