Deborah Crowe
Installation
2003
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Warp #1 2003
Nylon, Acrylic and Stainless Steel
500 x 500 mm

Warp #2 2003
Nylon, Acrylic and Stainless Steel
500 x 500 mm

                                          Deborah Crowe Warp #6 2004. Nylon and Acrylic



I am well aware now that the end of the year is very close and that a final work/works need to be made. I need to ensure that this does not restrict my imagination and my experimentation with the works and materials I am using. Today I found myself thinking too closely about the final presentation that I started to drift away from the acutal images I need to make and how each one will contribute to the conversation and ideas that I am working with.
After this mornings critique we discussed the impartance of the frame in my works as it plays a very dominant role in each work. I also found that I was a little worried about the installation and whether the viewer will be able to see my experimental side/ use of intuition and repetition and patterns. We discussed that it was important for me not to restrict myself and to keep it 'fresh.' I need to explore these materials and different aproaches to how the cotton can respond to the fram, or even become the frame.
I am now interested in creating a very exploritory series of works that looks at the materials and their relationsip to one another. I want maybe make one very intimate, delicate, pristine and beautiful, one which explores the optical side and the layering of frames, one which is directly onto the wall, supported by pins or a frame of cotton, one which may be propped out from the wall to ensure that the viewer can see the bautiful colour stips from the side and how the insensity of the grids can give a bold colour striped effect from a side on view.
I will continue to work on these works individually and pay lots of attention to making each one as intimately and interesting as I can to allow them to speak for themselves and generate interesting conversation as the viewer delvelops a colse relationship to each individual work and the different quality that they each bring to the series.