I don't have much to share or show at the moment - too many things on the go, going in different directions and few if any resolved or completed!
So here is more of the doodling and pottering that happens along the way to something...
Several years ago I took photographs of the walls of the new Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. I loved the incised outlines of city scapes and the skyline and how they had been incorporated into the architecture of the new building. Not everybody does...
I made some embossing plates from some of the images (years and years ago) and made a book "Echoes of Edinburgh" - which has been and probably always will be the head photo on my blog. This piece sold years ago and I was quite fond of it.
I found the plates again the other day and did some heavy duty embossing with them just to see what they looked like altogether on a single page. Interesting, but a bit weird.
And then I started writing words into them, which I quite enjoyed, but don't think will be going anywhere special too soon. Although they do remind me of mazes, and maps and journeys and travel routes and dead-ends and...
Still its always good to have done something, who knows when it might be just the right thing for some other time?
And always good to go back to something and find another way of working with it!
So here is more of the doodling and pottering that happens along the way to something...
Several years ago I took photographs of the walls of the new Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. I loved the incised outlines of city scapes and the skyline and how they had been incorporated into the architecture of the new building. Not everybody does...
I made some embossing plates from some of the images (years and years ago) and made a book "Echoes of Edinburgh" - which has been and probably always will be the head photo on my blog. This piece sold years ago and I was quite fond of it.
I found the plates again the other day and did some heavy duty embossing with them just to see what they looked like altogether on a single page. Interesting, but a bit weird.
And then I started writing words into them, which I quite enjoyed, but don't think will be going anywhere special too soon. Although they do remind me of mazes, and maps and journeys and travel routes and dead-ends and...
And always good to go back to something and find another way of working with it!
Interesting concept. I immediately saw the embossing as paths, the tops of brick walls and maps once the lettering was added.
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you saw the pathways, the maps and the walls in that piece! I think there is something to it in that way - just not sure what - but it will continue to chat and natter to me over time I daresay. Go well.
Deletei work this way a lot during school--just making somethings that may someday become something. i think these somethings become other through your treatment, very interesting...
ReplyDeleteIt's a good way to be isn't Velma, and understanding that these things can be portals to something else completely different means you know you are never wasting your time. Something leads to something...always.
DeleteThese are inspired ... and inspiring
ReplyDeleteThanks Liz - the mystery of marks and words and paths...go well.
Deletemore lovely possibilities .. I like the lettering!
ReplyDeleteMy head is so full of possibilities Susan! I think this looks intriguing but can't quite get a story out of it that will help me make sense of it yet; but I did enjoy it and will experiment some more.
DeleteOh Fiona, lovely pattern on the walls of the Scottish Parliament which looks like some kind of ancient writing, and then your letters on the embossing look fantastic. Hope they turn out to be just the thing for a future piece.
ReplyDeleteThe marks were marvellous Helen - and gradually they are finding their way into being something here in Oz!
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