Something fun and new (preview)
Photographed in my studio after completion with iPhone:
“I Will Always See You” (Chinese ink and gesso on paper, mounted on plywood,
77cm x 55cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)
Sometimes ‘things’ just happen when you “give in” and enjoy the moment.
This one is difficult to explain. It just happened. It freaks me out. Just look at it for a while and you’ll know why.
-We always see ‘things’ but are not aware of what exactly we are witnessing until we see “it” again in retrospect (i.e.: later in a photo, for example). This happened here.
Ever since I’ve stopped smoking I’ve been making more ‘practical’ or ‘useful’ things than ever before within a short time-span (chairs, lamps and now out of all things a “bench”)
-I don’t know if this is good (it certainly is boring) but I’ll just play this one out, work with ‘this moment in time’ and hope it will pass soon!
I photographed ‘it’ with a pair of runners to show the size of the bench (also to highlight the 3 stripes!)
Anisotropy is the property of being directionally dependent. An example of anisotropy is the light coming through a polarizer. Another is wood, which is easier to split along its grain than against it. In physics cosmic anisotropy has been seen in the alignment of galaxies’ rotation axes and polarisation angles of quasars. Physicists use the term anisotropy to describe direction-dependent properties of materials. For example: Wood is a naturally anisotropic material. Its properties vary widely when measured with or against the growth grain. For example, wood’s strength and hardness is different for the same sample measured in different orientations.
*This was a big slice of Douglas Fir which first I turned into a perfect rectangular “block”. The newly created “block” had the “Golden Rectangle” shape or the ‘divine proportions/dimensions’. Then I wildly started to cut the block apart , saving all the pieces and splinters and then began to glue them back together again keeping the “golden section” in mind.
-It began to look like the “Empire State Building”, The “Statue of Liberty” and “Decaying Detroit” all in one and that’s how I kept it.
-In a way it was an experiment to see: “if I cut up or destroy “perfection” and then reassemble/rebuild it (in this case stacking it), will the result still be perfect, i.e.: interesting and “pleasing”?
A good year. Quality and Quantity. 36 pieces (paintings, objects, wood block prints and “furniture”) plus I stopped smoking (cold turkey style) which was probably the most difficult thing I’ve done so far.
This is a photo compilation of the pieces in the order of their creation (from top left to bottom right-January 2015 to December 2015-). You can see here very clearly that I get bored easily and do not rely on a single “formula” and “pump out the work” accordingly (unlike many!) which explains the scope, the freshness and the variety.
I’m in the “making something useful for the house” mode and so after making 3 chairs I now finished a “lamp”. I only used plywood and plexiglass rest cuts that were in my studio.