Taking Things Sloe-ly Again...

graphite, putty eraser & watercolour/30x20cm

Another subtle readjustment of the relative postions of the found fruit, in the interests of establishing different spatial intervals & thus the compositional 'dynamic', considered both as a whole & in terms of the Uglowian 'charges' between individual objects.

As with the first of this sequence of watercolour drawings, the objects, again observed contre jour in order for the flux of available light to pass through their translucent forms, to preserve as much of their luminosity as possible, are represented within the context of the 'envelope' of their spatial continuum, the 'halo' of the highlit upper semicircle of their circumferences carved out of the ground against which they appear, in an attempt to render both an 'allover' lateral composition that draws attention to the process of making whilst suggesting something of the three-dimensional form of the fruit existing in a shallow recessional space.

Soundtrack:

The Go-Betweens 'Oceans Apart', 'The Friends of Rachel Worth' & 'Bright Yellow, Bright Orange'

How pleasant to proved wrong, courtesy of an enjoyably worthwhile listen to the Go-Betweens' valedictory 'Oceans Apart', which had been regarded unfavourably in the past &, indeed, consigned to obscurity for what must have been over four years: finely-crafted work, if not necessarily reaching the glorious zenith of much of the bands' earlier incarnation, & bearing the the undeniable stamp of quality of Messrs Forster & McLennan.