14 September 2009

Summer homework again

In the week before the new term starts, I'm finally getting to grips with summer homework.

It started with an orgy of cutting up magazines, and many have gone to the recycling, all but a page or two. Some pictures, the really resonant ones, have ended up in the sketchbook/scrapbook - the others are in a big box that might get sifted through now and then. And others are still lying about ...One type of "imagined interior" is the forest - the deep, dark, Teutonic forest (my ancestors are German, after all) - a terrible place in fairy tales, though nowadays, or was it 20 years ago, one Sunday pasttime is to walk through the forest to a nice restaurant in the very middle, and have a jolly lunch. These two images are almost benign - it's not that dense growth. And at the bottom is a stamped response ... the sort of hedge that grew up to protect Sleeping Beauty -
Some other categories are the interiors (or contents perhaps) of vessels; the inside of a person's head (not always like Mark Quinn's self-portrait filled with his own blood); fruits and seeds and seeds and fruits; sculptures with visible holes, or hollowness; mirrored spaces.
And there are the interiors of things like vegetables. The stamping is not with a cabbage, but with a lettuce - variety, Little Gem.

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