Monday, 1 March 2010

collaboration

not me and lizzie, yesterday.

had a meeting today with Lizzie Latham from fine art discussing a potential free range collaboration. it was great to talk to someone with similar interests in creating ambiguous or maybe non chronological narratives. She write stories and then will express them though arrangements of objects. I liked the way she uses the objects as the building blocks of her stories, they are broadly analogous a bit like Jungian archetypes, and mean that the stories can be interpreted in any number of ways. The use of these building blocks is something I recognize from my own work as well as an interest in creating circular narratives.

when i talked about big wall paintings, lizzie said she'd like to see a lens set back from the pice which could frame it and add additional information and explain relationships between images. I loved the idea of the contrast between the big ambiguous public piece and the intimate communication of the lens. The idea of a narrative being the selection and arrangement of elements from a wider messy reality is cool too.



Thursday, 25 February 2010



i've been trying to finish this strip for the last couple of days, it looks a bit unfinished for now, when i've finished it i'd like to print it on newsprint.

Early felix the cat films, as well as the strip have a beautiful texture to them as well as a certain dark/macabre quality to them, they're cartoons and they're funny but also pretty spooky...

other depression era cartoons have this quality as well. In this one about a diner car, the hot dogs moanin' and wailin' as they fry are especially hauntin'.

Tuesday, 23 February 2010

Raymond Pettibon

an abstract comic by someone called Andy Kronky Kru

Friday, 19 February 2010

Monday, 15 February 2010

George Grosz





saw some amazing George Grosz drawings in Berlin, i liked his work before but seeing the actual drawings i was absolutely blown away by how fresh they were, it's a shame the reproductions available somehow don't capture the incredible quality of line and vitality of his style. Also i hadn't seen his watercolours before but they are great too, such a lot of bright colour without an ugly clash, again I couldn't find the best ones on the net...