Painting Experiment 1 – Video
The creative process has been a bit harrowing of late. Do you know the feeling?
Many experiments have followed, and out of frustration I made a video piece that I starred in. Some people do that when they’re frustrated, I guess? That’s something you won’t catch me doing very often. Yet here I am, painting into thin air from the inside out.
(c) 2012 Naomi Nicholls, Painting Experiment 1
Video (Still 1)
Video (Still 1)
(c) 2012 Naomi Nicholls, Painting Experiment 1
Video (Still 2)
Video (Still 2)
It was pretty fun to make. I didn’t get too much paint on myself, and it helped me to learn what I don’t want to do, make works about me. There, I said it. Shall we move on then?
This painting onto plastic thing I have been playing with in recent weeks has been pretty fun. Unfortunately, it also caused a bit of a distraction from the work I want to be making. In many ways, I’m not much of a multi-tasker with ideas. I can’t move my work in two disparate directions, they have to vaguely be going toward the same end.
The paint carnage afterward wasn’t actually that bad…