My zoom meeting with Monique affirmed some of my queries regarding my painting practice. Monique assumed that my 'compost methodology' and its corresponding methods, (observe, interact and connect, composition to decomposition, layering, working within my limits and processual painting) were highly likely to shift towards a 'gardening' methodology.
This is due to the conceptual similarities between a 'compost' and a 'gardening' methodology. Furthermore, my practice seems to sit more comfortably within the frameworks and metaphor of gardening as opposed to the latter.
During the lockdown, I worked with small-scaled watercolours and Moniques encouraged me that 'downsizing' my practice utilizes the method, 'working within my limits'. Furthermore, she encouraged me to create an 'index' of subject matter which can be quickly developed through the medium of watercolour. This 'collected' 'index' of subject matter would be layered within my large-scaled oil paintings to regenerate a new image(s). Through layering and overlapping subject matter(s) on a large scale canvas, the holistic image rendered is regenerated, through a contemplative process of layering, abstraction and 'decomposition'.
I expressed to Monique that in order for my painting to be engaged as a plethora of layers of subject matter (my non-linear narrative) I felt strongly about creating a panoramic inspired painting. An elongated painting connotates to the shape of a tapestry, and also a large 'field' which broadly illustrates my metaphorical and practical research into regenerating the 'mono-culture' with a polycultural 'narrative' (consisting of many small things).
Furthermore, Monique suggested that by painting through a layered method, grounded within the gardening (no-dig) or compost methodology, the metaphorical layering suggests a non-heirachcal regenerative image, in which all subject matter layered and collected, decomposed and recomposed within the painting are of equal importance regardless of their formalities. Both line and figuration affect each other, unitedly creating a unique narrative, a regenerated image, which defeats a unanimous 'monocultural' approach to painting. Conceptually, these painterly ideas render similar interests in regenerative methods of gardening over monocultural, unethical farming. Hence, my painting strategies indirectly dismantle the heirarchal 'monoculture'.
The question of how I might justify painting 10 meters of the store-bought canvas while being 'ecologically aware' was raised, to which Monique assured me to settle the concern for the moment because the idea was strong enough to work around.
Some artists who work with 'panoramic' like paintings/ 2D works:
Ron Left:
Colin ,Mcahon:
Janet Cardiff: (describing the idea of parts of a whole through audio installation sculpture)
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