Installation

PVA glue, vivid, acrylic paint

Drawing:

For mid year assessment I presented my large glue drawing without the extra works at the bottom. After critique it was clear that the graphic and decorative images that I have made using the vivid do not enhance the work, but distract the viewer form the true materiality of the glue and its physical characteristis as a solid. One lecturer noted that it would be interesting to utilise thos characterisitcs and have materials and objects such as pieces of paper embedded in the glue, leaving them floating amongst the delicat skin of PVA glue.

From this critique I am goin to focus more on my interest in "truth to materials," and play around with the strengths of PVA glue and see what I can dreate with that. I am keen to trial paper (different colours and shapes), coloured dyes and throw them across the drying PVA glue allowing them to suspend in the dried sheets of PVA.

Another comment made by one of the lecturers during critique was to explore the shapes and layout of my PVA drawings. PVA can be manipulated in its liquid state to be any shape I want and so I am interested to see what other possibilities there are for scale, shape, and textures (layering of PVA skins) that I can create.