In January 2025 I worked on this big piece for my lounge room Blue Home.
I used the same techniques, just on one calendar page to make some other terraces, which I do not seem to have photographed.
This one had a lot of red tissue paper, and it just didn’t work.
So of late I found it and re-worked it – first some blue paint on the “street”, then some white paint to knock back the red, then some crayon to highlight the lines in the tissue, and some yellow washes and more paint, and then some ink using a template from Solidity. The quote looks like this:
The full quote is:
The whole – the world has always been chaotic. Life is unpredictable. It is – there is no form. And making forms gives you solidity. I think that’s why people paint paintings and take photographs and write music and tell stories and – that have beginning, middles and ends, even when the middle is at the beginning and the beginning is at the end.
Stephen Sondheim (likely from an interview about Merrily we Roll Along, which features a backwards narrative – long before Pulp Fiction.
I’m not sure if it’s finished.
One of the most exciting things was trying the masks / templates over the brightly coloured terraces with aqua blue windows: I’m considering adding another layer to this one, so this is a record of the piece as it is, but it may evolve!
I’ve added in here three others I rejuvenated from that same series that I seem to have never uploaded. Believe me they were less appealing in their historical form.
So below you have 3 images of the work in progress (with solidity in ink on it), then what i’m calling my Edvard Munch terraces, all scream-like, and then finally the one I have on my bedroom wall right now – It has some pleasing gold reflections (from the underlying image of something on the calendar) which don’t show so well in this image.
Unfortunately I often work at night, so the images, taken at night, indoors with poor lighting don’t show some of the better bits of the images – but i’d rather have them than hang out for the admin of photographing them!
