Permeable Structures
Lorna Lakin
Gesso and Oil on paper, mounted on wooden board, 30cm × 76cm
This project was born from an intuitive curiosity to see what happens if you take the ‘juicy bits’ of different abstract paintings and place them together. I cut developmental works into squares and aligned them to ‘draw’ with them. The result of piecing them together, was reminiscent of a wave breaking on a shore, stretching through the boundaries of each square, so I made more paintings specifically to deconstruct and reassemble.
Linda Benglis talks about making a feeling or a form as evident in Quartered Meteor. She’s described as concerned with ‘the artist as a force of nature.‘ This reaffirmed my engagement with the process. Starting with textured gesso bases over different types of paper, I systematically used oils to layer tones and then lifted areas with white spirits. The final selection of squares is used to draw across a whitewashed board and are varnished.