working ini winter: collage & transfer rubBEings/Haptic Eyes
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Even in winter much work gets done outside. I have found places that one may make rubBEings even during snow fallings--underneath eaves, or in areas protected from wind in which materials are found. If a surface is wet, carry paper towels to dry off for working on. This autumn I began mixing rubBEings with xylol tranfers from xeroxed images. Xylol is a very powerful and potentially quite dangeoours solvent which works susperbly on freeing the xerox image from its page and transferring it to the page one is working with. Sometimes I put down the image first, then do rubBEings over and among the image(s); others I make the rubBEing first then do the transfer. It creates some powerful effects, making for good contrast often as the black and white transfered images are sharp, clear and strong, which they need to be to be in confluence with the strength and rawness of the rubBEings. To work indoors lately where I can't use the solvent, I have been using a variation of this process in which the images are simply glued on to a background rubBEing. The effect of course is quite different from that of the transfers. The transfers have a certain ghostliness to them, whereas the collages feel more like a firm statement, less like the more suggestive atmosphere attained with the transfers.
I worked one day in a high wind with melting going on after a night of fresh snow. The wind sets the paper flapping like a bird in one's hand and one has to be patient and hold on well to get the rubBEing done. It is a fun battle of will and wits with the wind to get a piece done! I enjoy working during snow falls also, fidning the sheltered space with a good piece to make rubBEiings from and watching the world through the filter of the falling snow. Somedays the hands get cold quickly--after only a few pieces are made--and one has to bear with this. One wants to do more but can only do so much at a time trying to pace the hands' freezing with warming them up.
I have been continualy learning more about using my hands as eyes and my eyes as hands in finding new surfaces for gauging what they might be able to be used as for rubBeings. One develops a haptic eye and a seeing hand. It is continually with each day something which one learns as one learns a new language, adding to the vocabulary and learning syntax and grammer of these forms and their relation with the rubBEings which emerge from them. With each piece one learns more how to se with the hand and feel with the eye and so ever new horizons open in the world in which one moves and works.
This is the continual adventure one has when working with the Found Hidden in Plain Sight
Even in winter much work gets done outside. I have found places that one may make rubBEings even during snow fallings--underneath eaves, or in areas protected from wind in which materials are found. If a surface is wet, carry paper towels to dry off for working on. This autumn I began mixing rubBEings with xylol tranfers from xeroxed images. Xylol is a very powerful and potentially quite dangeoours solvent which works susperbly on freeing the xerox image from its page and transferring it to the page one is working with. Sometimes I put down the image first, then do rubBEings over and among the image(s); others I make the rubBEing first then do the transfer. It creates some powerful effects, making for good contrast often as the black and white transfered images are sharp, clear and strong, which they need to be to be in confluence with the strength and rawness of the rubBEings. To work indoors lately where I can't use the solvent, I have been using a variation of this process in which the images are simply glued on to a background rubBEing. The effect of course is quite different from that of the transfers. The transfers have a certain ghostliness to them, whereas the collages feel more like a firm statement, less like the more suggestive atmosphere attained with the transfers.
I worked one day in a high wind with melting going on after a night of fresh snow. The wind sets the paper flapping like a bird in one's hand and one has to be patient and hold on well to get the rubBEing done. It is a fun battle of will and wits with the wind to get a piece done! I enjoy working during snow falls also, fidning the sheltered space with a good piece to make rubBEiings from and watching the world through the filter of the falling snow. Somedays the hands get cold quickly--after only a few pieces are made--and one has to bear with this. One wants to do more but can only do so much at a time trying to pace the hands' freezing with warming them up.
I have been continualy learning more about using my hands as eyes and my eyes as hands in finding new surfaces for gauging what they might be able to be used as for rubBeings. One develops a haptic eye and a seeing hand. It is continually with each day something which one learns as one learns a new language, adding to the vocabulary and learning syntax and grammer of these forms and their relation with the rubBEings which emerge from them. With each piece one learns more how to se with the hand and feel with the eye and so ever new horizons open in the world in which one moves and works.
This is the continual adventure one has when working with the Found Hidden in Plain Sight
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