This painting, sized at 61cm x 76cm is entitled ‘The Mesh’. This is a working title, and I feel that I can only title it once it is finished. ‘The Mesh’ is one of the many concepts that Timothy Morton introduces in his book ‘The Ecological Thought’ (2010) pertaining to interconnectedness.
The process of this painting is deeply uncomfortable in that I have no idea where it’s going. For once, I’m not planning it, not stopping to see whether colours are balanced, nor am I paying any heed to what the overall composition will look like when it’s finished.
Instead, I am painting shapes and patterns that come to me whilst working on subsequent layers. As I am painting, if an idea about a shape or patterns comes to me, I will stop to capture this in my sketchbook.
I am usually a lot more thoughtful about use of colours, and whether the colours overall look balanced, etc. This time around I am just going with the flow, feeling unattached to the outcome – if it’s ugly perhaps I’ll burn that on the campfire too 😉
Debbie New 