The Wallpaper, Obsessing and The Importance of Keeping Busy
detail – building up the bottom layers with lighter opacity
I’m obsessing about making this wallpaper. Started it 4 years ago…and it just won’t leave me alone.
So just when I thought about putting this idea to rest, along comes this artist that tells me about the importance of making something that is divergent from a regular working process. Even a flower arrangement can serve a purpose if it keeps you busy and feeds you new ideas.
I originally started by photographing the printed flowers off a vintage dinner plate and rearranging the parts into a linear patterned wallpaper.
After making a linear pattern I reworked the design into this crazy massive flower arrangement. I just hated that the flowers were acting so decent and I though it would be great to have them misbehave into something organic. So I’m arranging this non-ending oval. Taking apart the pieces, changing the sizes and skewing the perspectives. I just added some lighter faded parts in the back. I’m thinking about adding some flies to the composition but not really sure.
Every year I read “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. There is something so weird about this story of a woman who obsesses about the wallpaper in a room. She starts to go crazy and peels away incessantly at the wallpaper to keep herself busy.
oval arrangement. adding lighter layers
approx. 40″ x 80″ floor to ceiling
first arrangement in linear pattern.
original vintage plate
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I would totally add flies. Obsessions are an interesting thing. Good obsessions can drive you to fantastic new places that you would otherwise never get to see.
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I have also read and fallen in love with Gilman’s ‘the yellow wallpaper’. That’s awesome…
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I also think the flies are a great idea. The evolution of this pattern is very interesting especially when you talk about the connection with “The Yellow Wallpaper.”
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