The following images are the chronological order I stretched my canvas and primed it.
Four layers of gesso, and a sand in between the last two layers.
I had been gardening while prepping the canvas, so when my canvas was drying, I would go outside and prepare the soil for my garden bed.
In Uni studios, usually, I like working on multiple canvases. It ensures I always have another painting to work on, while I am 'stuck' for ideas, or contemplating an older work. The multiplicity of working on two or three different paintings at a given time helps me to have a flow of ideas as opposed to static contemplation when waiting for a single painting to dry.
Subconsciously I must have borrowed this sentiment in which the movement of ideas, through my body-vessel to upkeep my practice at home. I flittered seamlessly, working from canvas to garden and garden to the canvas. In retrospect, it felt like I was working from canvas to canvas, or garden to garden. The symbiotic relationship of working from one space to the other, and hence borrowing the treatment of the garden and into the space of the canvas, and vice versa was a really magical moment in my pratice.
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