Cazzie Marsh 8/7/2013

 Objects to discard, Objects to keep. A dichotomy, as a collector one can ask oneself.
In a continuing strategy from my previous works, my paintings further analyse my autobiographical association with collecting. My methodologies firstly involve selecting objects and textiles that are inherited through an ancestral route; further, a relationship to my past through worn textiles and found objects that remain sentimental to me and finally and importantly, given objects received as gifts from loved ones.
My paintings are individual transient reflections of the time, the place; in relation to objects; an autobiographical history (although not chronological) of my life and my collections; fragments of things,stuff, and bits and bobs.
This platform for a broader framework allows me as an artist to expand and question the polarities of why we chose particular items and why we keep others and centrally this allows me to depict in paint, my own preferences.What would you keep, What would you discard?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diary

Hi, these are two paintings I have completed since my last visit on here and I'm just about to complete my 6th in this series. The above one is enamel on safety glass, 65 x 102 cm. Which I smashed to give a shattered broken effect but perfectly safe. The enamel I distressed by adding water to the image, deconstruction.  The second image is oil on canvas, 151 x 151 cm.
 I believe my last visit here was when I was just about to start my critical evaluation paper, which mentally I found very difficult to do, personal and difficult to reflect on my drives to produce art or what my unconcious thoughts are reflecting on before I conciously construct an image, perception. I am now at that same stepping stone, the last reflection I learned alot about myself. I came to an understanding of myself within. Nearing the end of my course, one more painting, a folio and another crit on myself.