it's really great to understand more about your relationship to the grid and how it operates within your work. The various ways in which you make use of them as structure and resting spaces within movement of other elements is really interesting to see across the various examples you posted here.
I also find myself liking to have something to work against in early stages of new works. Everything that comes prior to the last layer is something to work against or use as a structure.
The glyphs that I use in some of my work have almost always appeared within a gridded formation. I find them as useful within the picture plane in a seemingly similar way that you find your various grids providing places for the eye resting and holding the spaces and marks together.
Yes, that settled/stable feeling is what I’m after every time. I often tell people that one of my paintings is finished “when it feels right”. That feeling is that it’s stable enough to hold up on it’s own without any further intervention on my part.
Amazing as always!
it's really great to understand more about your relationship to the grid and how it operates within your work. The various ways in which you make use of them as structure and resting spaces within movement of other elements is really interesting to see across the various examples you posted here.
I also find myself liking to have something to work against in early stages of new works. Everything that comes prior to the last layer is something to work against or use as a structure.
The glyphs that I use in some of my work have almost always appeared within a gridded formation. I find them as useful within the picture plane in a seemingly similar way that you find your various grids providing places for the eye resting and holding the spaces and marks together.
“Everything that comes prior to the last layer is something to work against or use as a structure.”
That is exactly it! I react to forms and colours and marks until they feel settled or at least stable in their action on the page.
Yes, that settled/stable feeling is what I’m after every time. I often tell people that one of my paintings is finished “when it feels right”. That feeling is that it’s stable enough to hold up on it’s own without any further intervention on my part.