But first...
Dulltown, UK: Today's adjectives are: floppy, retiform, umbrageous, edaphic, myrmecold, telpher, and wriggly.
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Alright, here is one from twelve years ago, bloody 'ell, doesn't time fly? Tempus is fugiting like mad!
Decalcomania monoprint. 2010.
Black acrylic paint, and pencil 'shading', on paper - about 16" x 12", 40 cm x 30 cm.
What do you make of it, dear reader?
It is abstract. You couldn't really get much more abstract than flaky random decalcomania, could you?
If you fancy, dear reader, having a go at this art form, you could look at an early post of mine on how I do it. Just click here.
By the way, the way the photo is whiter at the edges than in the middle is a photographic effect I'm afraid - I am slowly working on this problem though - possibly by setting the 'white balance' control on the camera when pointed at a blank sheet of paper!
Well, the 'shading' in pencil does have the effect of making 'shadows', and a bit of reality, doesn't it? It makes the objects look as if they are standing, and reclining, on a solid surface - eh?
I suppose, if you wanted to give this piece of work a bit of meaning, I think you might have a couple of choices.
The person on the left, holding the oversized ping-pong bats, is a sculptor, just about to attack a large mound of clay, and turn it into another Michelangelo's 'David', or a Henry Moore 'Big Lass Lounging'.
Or...
And, I'm a bit reluctant to go this way, I don't want to spoil your appreciation of my print, but it could depict the end of a boxing match - oh, see those big gloves!
Boxing:
What a really odd 'sport' that is. I've never warmed to it. Two people just beating the shit out of each other, injuring each other, for other people to get excited and watch.
No, no, humans ought to be a bit better than that by now!
Wouldn't it be awful if some boxing supporter bought my print?...
'No, no'!, I'd say, 'You can't have it'!
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