Lately I have been trying to make lists about my work to describe and understand the key ideas of my practice. Through simplifying what my ideas are I can start to think through these ideas and describe them to the main core themes to situate my work. Often work shifts and ideas become relevant and irrelevant, this is a good thing to think about and sometimes I want to describe a point in a particular strand of the work and open it out a bit, I also want to allow myself to be a bit more poetic towards how I think or have less clunky words or phrases so that it is easier to understand and process and maybe have the description a bit more open ended? To seek the main ideas instead of delve into uncertainties of the familiar.
10, 5 word statements about your practice
- Paintings made depicting the Waikato
- My position as an ‘outsider’
- Construction zone materials as painting
- Observing surroundings always in flux
- Placeholders colours taken from place
- Walkway paths snake through trees
- Broken landscapes depict changing ecosystems
- Development plans host awkward figures
- Rules and regulation in preservation
- Housing pressures towards native ecosystems
- Wood backing holds dry paint
- Walkway pavement cement poured frames
- Left over remnants fragmenting space
- Pulled from the piles scavenged
- Building and construction ground regulation
- Uneven surfaces next to flattened
- “found paint on found backing”
- A mish-mash formulated through surfaces
- Hybridity of nature’s place holders
- Colours reflect material reflect place
Llenyd Price 