Feedback Assignment 4

My tutor suggested that I look at Hewitt and Joyce who did a project called Work-Shy which involved collaborative drawings literally both holding the pen at the same time. My mind boggles at the difficulties involved in working together in this way, the challenges are enormous. This work is in many ways a more interesting version of Mike Martins line drawings, it's the wobbliness of the line that makes it more appealing.

She also introduced me to the work of Jacques Nimki who does lovely delicate intricate drawings of weeds and plant related projects. I particularly like the drawings on walls and windows which have the immediacy and accessability of street art. His choice of an overlooked and ignored subject is inspiring, I hate the way that weeds are dismissed, it seems like a form of racism.
Roger Ackling used found pieces of wood as supports and "drew" regular, ordered dots by focusing the sun's rays with a magnifying glass. The dots link together to make lines. (also here) It doesn't sound like a recipe for artwork but the objects that he created are simple and tactile. They appeal to our need for tidiness and regularity but link to primitive art, using the elements, keeping things simple.

Installation

The mice have potential for development so here they are drawn directly onto the kitchen wall.

I wanted them to be reaching down to the viewer. I do prefer the cutouts because they sit on the wall rather than becoming part of it, I see them as additions, mobile and transient.




So here they are in other types of paper;

 Tissue paper

A post it note

 Cut out from a glossy trade paper,

 and tracing paper, which I think is the only one that works, though still not as good as the originals.