The last few days have been spent getting ready Art Byte Critique and myself ready for the Setouchi Art Book Fair which is taking place starting tomorrow, Friday, October 25th through Sunday, October 27th. Arriving in Takamatsu this afternoon in a heavy downpour, I am sitting in my Super Hotel room with my laptop and catching up with some of what has been going on in the study the last few days. The books and all the necessary materials for booth setup are all packed and ready to go for tomorrow morning.
Having worked digitally over the last week or so, I got back to hands on, analog making last night before heading to Takamatsu today. I took an approach similar to what I did during the course of the Future Sound/Future Vision exhibition at Launch Pad Gallery last year. It is a bit different as there is more intentionality with these enlarged, unintentionally cropped Daily Drawings. Trying to keep things as intuitive as possible, I was making this piece while watching television. The end result is a malleable and relatively unstable form which can be played with and altered. I used photo paper to print out the Daily Drawings and got some what I thought was relatively sturdy construction paper from the 100 yen shop, but it is less rigid than I had hoped. Here is the end result from three different angles.
My muscle memory for working in three-dimensional feels a bit rusty. I do think there is potential, but there are still more experiments to play with to refine things. I was inspired by the Memory Remnants that I did a few days earlier which was the result of pulling off excess pieces of paper after printing seals for the Setouchi Art Book Fair.
I can almost imagine a mass of lines connecting cropped Daily Drawings and Memory Remnants on the gallery floor. I have brought construction paper with me to Takamatsu and will play around with it when I am not at the art book fair.
On the way to Takamatsu this afternoon, I went back and did some digital work with my Daily Drawings and Memory Remnants which I have not really crossed over and the results are four different studies using a one week period in December 2018 and selecting elements for each Daily Drawing and Memory Remnants and pasting them in chronological order going forward and going backwards. These are the results.
