Fingerprints included - This Light

Fingerprints included - This Light , originally uploaded by gilfling.

Hello! This is a busy week as ever with preparing new work, catching up on all that I am behind on and spending some time with Mark who is on holiday. Although I am working less hours at my Memories are made of this job this week I still have lots of the little jobs to be getting on with and one of these is showing these new pieces!

Fingerprints included - some new little works that originally began as sketches for larger pieces (still to come to life) but ones that I am actually quite pleased with. The title of the theme comes from the fact that they are a little 'rough'. They are worked oils and graphite and coloured pencils with torn edges to the paper and the distinct marks of my hands in the form of fingerprints. Normally I try to keep my work as 'clean' as I can (in that I am messy but then try to remove the evidence of this by rubbing away hand-marks), however with these I enjoyed the tactile quality of working with the oils and the smudginess of the pencils.

Although I have been working away in my journals and sketchbooks in order to develop new work and ideas that have been arriving at a fast pace, I have been slow to put these ideas into practice. I am feeling really inspired by my reminiscence work and the way in which we would like to see ourselves represented, the objects and ideas that are important to us and of course there are little details of costumes and the past in there too.

I am looking forward to creating more of these and eventually making larger pieces based on the ideas, but mostly I am just enjoying putting my ideas onto paper. So much so that these will be available in my etsy shop! This Light is available here
Thank you so much for your wonderful comments on my dolls. I love hearing peoples views on them. I am not interested so much in whether they are 'liked' or not, more the reactions, whether of connection, discomfort, or even feeling unsure about them. So I do very much appreciate you taking the time to leave your comments.

Right back to work for me!

Comments

[waterrose]

Those are so eerie and haunting. I could someone writing short stories around each of those...in a Poe sort of way.