Building on the work that I did relating to Mrs Pool(e), I am continuing to reference marks and traces left behind, reminders that others have been here before me. My current focus is a suitcase full of old diaries and the sense I find in them of the obsessive recording of everyday life; and of symbols standing for things that happened, their secret meaning now lost.
Within the work I am experimenting with various media to create fragmented layers and stains, evoking glimpses of the past.
It's sometimes hard to know when a piece of work is finished. Sometimes it feels incomplete but I'm not sure where to go with it next, so I live with it for a while as I contemplate what it needs. Other times I continue and then think I should have left it at an earlier stage. And sometimes I know when it's complete!
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To go further (in progress)
JZZ at work.