Rachael McCallum's Unicorn Spew,

Rachael McCallum's UnicornSpew ~The online journal of Artness as-it-happens.


Sunday 4 August 2013

Gravity spews!

Here in these latest works- I have fired these large paintings vertically and designed high flux glazes to increase momentum of drool. As the top glaze melts, it mixes and reacts with lower placed glazes which otherwise would have been stable, gently resisting but inevitably falling with the new materials in reaction.
I plan for these paintings to lean against a wall on a shelf or to be hung with an obnoxious rope method. ... but it will take weeks of evaluation to finally decide on my hang ups ;)

close ups comming soon!

Paint play

Its crazy what you discover when you doubt your ability. ..
My doubt in my representation skills lets me express the erratic.
Here is todays colour play-

But now its finished I will question it and its nature:
Why rectangular?  Unthinking.
Why these colours and not mix particular? It doesn't matter the colour, it matters the enegery of their content/contrsat next to others.
Why is brighter towards the centre? Focusing intensity at a point , but yellow is a plane and a rest from the pattern, becoming a focus in itself. Focus framed by focusing framed by less intense of the same.
Why on clear cellophane?  So the gaps are able to reveal the false consruct of this piece.
Why not many holes, if that is the purpose?  Because I don't want to know there are holes- they are like an accident. A loophole. 
Why do you relate everything absractly to life and its structures?  Because its my existence- to mediate and meditat upon is all I am left with.
Is it finished? No, not until it has finished mixing its surface and dried and it has been suspended in a frame will it be fair for the whole to be seen.
You mentioned earlier this was unthinking when you were making? Yes I am trying to avoid thought paralysis.
Will you flip it over an evaluate the other clear side when it is dry ? Yes but if it is more interesting than this side, it can only stregnthen the meaning of social life construction.
What do you mean social life construction? 
I am trying to relate paint as a mark, an existence.  Like a persons life, its mark/ impact interacts with the other marks to make a society/network. The network exists but its purpose is its essence- to be colour (paint) and people exist to be love. I find the two very similar- but wording difficult.  I'll get back to you.
You want to avoid thought paralysis?
Yes