Mirror & Cabinet top
Drawer 2 - 'All is marred'
- That's brilliant - art deco - do you want to come home with me?
- Amazing what a coat of white paint will do.
- You've really got on, haven't you!
- Didn't know you had an artistic flair.
- Dude, you got to learn to hold your red pen without making a mess!!!
- The images in the drawers are really powerful.
- I like the technique on the mirror.
- I like the dialogue you're getting.
- It's really coming on - looks almost finished.
Day 2 - Activities:
Only able to work on the project during the morning today but have managed to install the photomontages and constructions for the four drawers and complete the front of the mirror.
The first drawer contains two constructions. The first is a black circle glued to the drawer base from which a segment of the circle and drawer base has been cut. This breaks the perfect circle and creates a hole into the drawer below. The second is an image of the hands of God and Adam taken from Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel. In the space between the two outstretched fingers a bloodstained nail has been driven and blood drips from the nail.
The second drawer contains two collages spattered in blood. One depicts people and activities that are generally perceived as positive, the other people and activities generally perceived to be negative.
The third drawer has two photomontages. The first features a segment from a medieval painting of Adam and Eve. Eve's apple and breasts are positioned in the same line and painted as the same size and shape. Framing this segment are the words: 'Temptation or Fall? Or not at all?' The second photomontage shows the angel and Mary from Fra Angelico's Annunciation. Above these two figures are the heads of Adam, Abraham, Elisha, Elijah, David, Solomon, Moses and Eve. Below are the words: 'Will she say, "Yes."'
The final drawer has two photomontages. In the centre of both are Crucifixion's by Rouault. An arrow saying either 'Redistribution' or 'Relocation' crosses Christ's body suggesting that his outstretched arms are a bridge by which we can move from the hoarding to the sharing of wealth.
The front of the mirror uses black and white images of Christ and Clowns by Houthuesen, Howson and Rouault copied onto transparencies. These have been taped to the mirror's glass enabling the viewer to see his/herself among overlapping images of Christ and fools.
As I was working on these images there were several complimentary comments from playgroup parents about last night's painting. Margaret and Jean again provided tea and chat. Jean took photos.
Met up with Rodney this evening to discuss the hang for Visual Dialogue and to collect the paintings he is including in the exhibition.
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