These are a few of the Found Paintings I have collected and processed for the Final Project. I think I have some more in this blog but can't quite find the link right now. I have 360 prepared, and made into moving image, exactly an hour long. My plan is to layer that further with shadows of the Old School photos:
The links I want to make and the case I want to build up is about these images in relation to Found Images:
and the Meaning of Abstract Painting:
I read each of these images as an abstract painting, although they were painted by default. What makes them images is that I frame them and pick them out.
And the other thing is, I'm completely obsessed. Often when I am collecting objects or images, it is immersive for a while, and then when I have enough for the project, I have to break the addiction. This time, I am continuing collecting the found painting images, and can't really see myself ever stopping. There is more and different work to make from them.When I am looking for them, recognising them, framing and taking them, there are many processes going on in my mind, as if I am finding a genius little abstract painting in an unlikely place, and all I have to do is see the wood from the trees. Further, when I upload them and process them, seeing if each one is effective after all, editing out previously unnoticed anomalies and basically deciding if they work, I am tuning in to each as if it is a painting, searching the meanings, reading the gesture, thinking of what they reveal. There is a language of colour, and intelligence of placement and a concept of composition to each. There are relationships between light and shade and amongst the forms, lines and shapes. I also look to the variations in patina - my rule is no shade or shadow, so that the images are flattish with no weather, but I like to include some variations of the rule.
My abiding criteria for these found paintings is frankly that I love them and I see something in them, a meaning and an aesthetic world.
9th June 2014
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