According to Wikipedia red is ''is the color of blood, rubies and strawberries.[3][4] It is the color of the wavelength of light from approximately 620–740 nm on theelectromagnetic spectrum.[2] Next to orange at the end of the visible spectrum, red is commonly associated with danger, sacrifice, passion, fire, beauty, blood, anger, Christmas, socialism, communism, and in China and many other cultures, with happiness''
Red is also a colour I have a lot of. Not just in terms of red clothing but I also have stacks of red paper and card, along with quite a lot of other colours too. But red appears to be the colour that was on top of the pile whilst I was producing this latest batch of pictures. Hence why there is a lot of red used in them.
Also used in these images are a lot of notebook drawings from work. Cut apart and stuck together in different orders because that makes them look like more than just bored scribblings. As a collagist with lots of self generated materials this is a common trick that I've employed very shamelessly over the years.
In these images red certainly stands out. It gives them a troubled, abrasive and violent quality - one that's quite intentional and possibly conveys some tortured element within my soul - though more likely it conveys that lots of red was on the top of my pile of collage materials this week. The soul explanation is much more exciting but the collage materials explanation is much more honest... though both explanations could be completely true anyway, how can we truly know what our own souls are all about?
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In collage there is something much more natural about using the materials closest to hand. Though in all honesty my form of collage is different from the traditional type, which is generated through the use of external source material. My source material is usually my own artwork and also as evidenced through these pictures the use of coloured card and paper. There is probably some of my troubled soul thrown in there for good measure but as mentioned in previous entries a lot of it is just put together in a kind fugue state. Which is quite relaxing most of the time. Hardly troubled at all. So perhaps these images are representative of a relaxed soul.... perhaps with troubled undercurrents. Perhaps not. I'm not sure. I'm not as deep as you might imagine. So whatever troubled undercurrents I have are likely much closer to the surface than I'd like them to be. I think I can see them. Hello undercurrents.
This last one was actually the first of these images to be put together. There appears to be a little less red in it. I'm no psychologist but I would analyse the reason for I am doing this would be through a serious condition called ''Not reaching the point in which his collage materials that contains a huge amount of red paper and card.'' Despite not being a psychologist I am very confident in my diagnosis and me and myself are now working our way through this issue through lots of cognitive therapy. Pretty good work to say I'm not a psychologist. I've read a few books in my time.
In news not relating to the colour red but relating to books over the past month I've been taking part in that Nanowrimo thing. Where you are meant to write a 50000 word first draft of a novel in one month. I actually managed to achieve this completing the first draft in 30 days. It's very messy but looking forward to redrafting it. Whether it's going to be any good or if I'll ever mention it ever again is another matter entirely.
Look at that graph above. That proves I can hit the buttons on a keyboard every day and achieve a target word count.
Also unrelated to the colour red. A friend of mine, Nick Cash, has devised a new portable gallery called the Paste Table Gallery which is taken to all kinds of places in London. He tends to exhibit collages and other interesting work. Some by an artist called Garth Simmons, who I have never heard of. He sounds good though. I hear he lives somewhere in my flat but I can never find him, maybe because he has to go to work all the time at a normal job. Maybe you should all give him loads of money then he can be a self employed artist and I might finally get to meet him.
Anyway the Facebook page for Nick Cash's venture is located here https://www.facebook.com/pastetablegallery?ref=br_tf you should go and like it. Go on then.
Your work shows such much energy. It's great!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Joelle - your work is pretty cool too. For anyone reading who isn't aware of it please click here http://joelleford.blogspot.co.uk/
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