Joy of Progress Reviews..

So after a tutorial with the lovely Breda, I decided to go away from pen ever so slightly and use graphite instead.  These take a lot longer than pen for me so a lot more work went into them.

I visited the Biennale in Venice earlier in September and came home inspired by some of the art work I saw there.  One such way of displaying the work really caught my eye.  There was a blank piece of paper in one of the exhibitions at the Arsenale, with a mirror behind it so that you could only see what was printed on the paper if you looked in the mirror.  I really wanted to give this a try and felt it would work well in my project.

 

 

 

 

Next time though when I attempt it again, I hope to go bigger and have the drawing more widely spaced out from the mirror.

 

 

I also wanted to base drawings and pieces of work on the 10 commandments as well.

 



 

 

This project has a lot of play on words and contradicting text with images, as seen with my Pope Francis "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil."

 

 



 

 

 

Breda also pointed me in the direction of a documentary called "Silence in the House of God."  On seeing that it was 2 hours long and dealt with the issues of the child sex abuse scandals in the church, I thought not a hope would I watch the whole thing, id just get the gist of it.

 

But alas on sitting down and beginning to watch it I was immediately sucked in.  It was tough in parts to watch as the subject matter was quite sad but it was an amazing documentary that was so well put together.  I wanted to touch on the subject of the scandals but its not an area I would be willing to make a joke about like I do with the other areas of the Catholic Church....I do have some morals after all :P

 

In the documentary, the boys who are now fully grown men, refer to the priest who abused them as a wolf, a wolf who would creep into their rooms at night looking for their prey.  This gave me an idea of using an image of a wolf as a metaphor for the priest.  Personally I think it would make a good etching which is my next port of call.

 

I want to mix etchings with screen prints, etch the pen drawings as I feel they would work well, and then screen the words over them.  Once I can start back into the whole print room madness, I'll be happy!