Continuing my chairs series, this one is over the top of a collage which includes parts of “Europe since Napoleon”, some National Geographic photos, some tissue paper and many layers of glazes.
I added a layer of Ironlak marker with chairs, which cease to look like chairs when shaded in.
Here are pix of what the piece looked like before and after I added the chairs.
It’s a work on paper, it’s about 60 x 180cm (i haven’t measured it properly).
I have called it sweeping joy because there’s a lot of movement in there. I’ve been reading about the aesthetics of joy in Joyful recently,