Something here flourished. Spawning from the idea of functionality that is transportable or removable, I made a second placard. Only this time it wasn’t really a placard at all. I realised that transportation and functionality are disparate actions, but what if polarities could be fused together to make new ways of communicating… I recognise this sounds like an advert for a mobile phone.
Functionality simultaneously flourished and withered away with this second stick. The message is no longer, what remains is the medium.
Stripping semantics away from visuality in this way is like staring at a blank wall and not realising it’s a blank wall.
So for me the material becomes paramount.
Switching focus between the reality of the object, i.e the paper, to the shadow it casts on the wall is something that can be read as communication. Or perhaps miss communication.
These shapes mirror each other, but use different spaces to convey their joint meaning.
When the paper stops and the shadow takes over, lines are blurred. this is the sort of boundary breaking that finds itself translated within my paintwork. Laying stencil shapes over observational paintings of the object isn’t so much paradoxical, but more cyclical.
CONNIE HOPE 