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Auction Art – 4 works inspired by Rex Ray
and the Hummel Concerto
Continuing
the descriptions of art that is up for online auction until Dec 6, 2018
In 2008, I bought two plane tickets for
myself and Guy Few, and we flew to San Francisco to edit our second concerto
album, Romanza.
We spent 4 days in the studio of recording
engineer David Bowles of Swineshead Productions LLC in Berkley, CA. When the
editing was completed, we headed into SF to eat things, buy stupid hats and
look at art.
I was really inspired by the art of Rex Ray
which was on exhibit. I bought a book about him and a big pack of
postcards. I pored over the book and created
two large paintings in one of my favourite elongated narrow shapes (2 feet x 6
feet).
LOT
137
OTHELLO & DESDEMONA (2009)
One was called The Sun’s Letter to the Moon
(I love you) and sold in 2014 to flutist Leslie Newman. The second, Othello and
Desdemona, is available in the current online auction until December 6. It is acrylic on canvas, with portions of the
painting collaged onto the main canvas.
I also used multi-media acrylic polymer to give it a gritty texture in
places. If it doesn’t sell, I will pull
it off the stretcher, roll it up and use the stretcher frame to continue
another series I am currently working on.
LOTS
129 AND 130
FLY FREE and PICTURE THIS (FLY FREE) (2018)
And I carried the postcards for 9 years,
through 3 house sales and moves, one divorce, the death of both my parents and
a several more recording projects. When
sorting out boxes when I moved to the church studio in Drayton, I found that
fabulous postcards and made two very long, double-sided mobiles.
The first one is my basic motif of a flying
bird. I used very strong, thin nylon string that I had inherited from my father
who had used it for creating fish nets (for catching food, not for making
stockings) when he was sailing to Hawaii on a boat he built himself. Yes, his
story might be more interesting.
For the cut out birds (Fly Free), I cut birds
from two postcards and glued them one at a time, always referring to a hanging
point to make sure they were level. The
cardstock is good quality, but all papers need to be heavily weighted to dry
straight and true, so I did one bird at a time, allowing a minimum of 12 hours
to dry for each. In the end, there were 11 birds spaced on the string, and when
hung, they turn slowly in different directions. In the daytime, they catch the
sun and briefly flash; at night, they cast poetic shadows.
I used the remaining postcards to make PictureThis (Fly Free), which is another, shorter mobile (ca. 7 feet). This mobile uses two parallel support strings
which are attached to a carved willow twig at the top. To create this mobile, I put equidistant pins
into each end of the work table, then secured them for the duration of the
creation process. I alternated the
flying direction of each bird on the totemic mobile and spaced them
evenly. There are 10 images on the
mobile.
detail from Picture This (Fly Free)
all photos by Dawn McLeod
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