Self-Isolation: Week Eleven

Lots of very varied work this week, where I mainly discovered the joy of smart layers, vintage type, and Eastern European Shoegaze. I’d done some experiments like this before, but I made up a virtual exhibition and resulting poster campaign for some of my recent pieces, and built out a number of works for what that’d look like in real life. I miss being able to go to art galleries at the moment, so I’m home making my own.

The main part of the week was spent working on a number of type and vintage engraving pieces, which I’m excited to see starting to come together. The Somerset kid in me really enjoyed the pieces with all the cows, and I’m particularly enjoying the work around mislabelling things - something I applied to a small set of Soviet leaders, and will probably do some more of in the future. I’ve always loved film stills, so decided to make some of my own, grabbing from fictitious movies that never got made, and subtitling them to frame them as Japanese or Russian cinema from the eighties.

I also thought about phyrric victories, gauchos, alignments vs. disagreements, and consecutive sequences from dictionaries - something that’s long lost online. I thought the new Invisible Man movie was really great, but otherwise I’m not really watching TV at the moment. I’d much rather be creating my own realities somewhere else.