Sunday studio

I changed the one from yesterdays post, and finished the next one in the series. I like the wrapping, the covering of the gutskin, around the high shine of the epoxied surface.  Inspiration from post WWII artists; Alberto Burri, Jean Fautrier, Gustav Metzger, Kazuo Shiraga, Robert Rauschenberg.

"...for these artists, destruction was not just a nihilistic act, and the void was not just a black hole of despair and anxiety: destruction was in a dialectical relationship with creation, and the void was a space of potentiality.  From the embers of the destruction of the picture plane emerged a medium reborn that powerfully registered the complex experience of living in a world perched on the brink of self annihilation." -Paul Schimmel, "Painting the Void". destroy the picture:painting the void, 1949-1962 (pp.188-203).

The similarities between that post-war sentiment and the 'post-current-eve' of war reality today is palpable.