Joey

Now focusing on one corner of the courtyard - which makes sense because those beautiful wires are what got me into this mess in the first place. I'm concentrating less on creating a cohesive body of work, and more on experimenting with different ways to emphazise all the lines and beautiful chaos that's already happening in this particularly decayed, wired-up, pipey, bricky, full-of-life corner. In class last tuesday i experimented with chalking in existing meandering lines on the wall. There were certain areas where the line was effective, but this experiment was, on the whole, somewhat underwhelming. In order to activate the entire corner, i decided to move into three dimensional space and put up an installation which did not follow preexisting lines but (hopefully) drew attention to them. The installation - consisting of strips of cardboard and paper threaded onto wire and strung from wall to wall - did help draw attention to all the naturally occuring stuff, but it felt like sort of a dead end to me. I realized that I wasn't quite through with two dimensions, namely drawings.
Thus - I'm working on a series of drawings of the entire corner, very light intricate pencil work, picking and chosing what to include and what to leave out, then going back in with ink and water color and pulling out certain elements. I plan to draw the same corner in vaguely the same way over and over, but each drawing will be drastically different. Because theres so much going on in this corner, its exciting to me to be able to draw it repeatedly but make an entirely new composition each time. I'm also much happier with this aesthetic. My disclaimer is that they look much better in person because the pencil is so faint, photos can't quite capture the delicateness. The only problem is that this corner smells PUNGENTLY of urine...sitting out there is kind of repulsive.