Piece for Exhibition

[a piece of me has become immortal, beyond my control] 2010 | Sonny Barker
mixed media incorporating found wood, copperplate, Polaroid Photograph

This week has been a tumultuous one for me, both at work and in life. I won't delve into the life bit for now as that is periphery to what I am focusing on right now. After the Cross-Course Crit that we all had to undertake on last Thursday, I decided to shelve my latest project (to be worked on later) and start a brand new exercise that was kind of on the back-boiler of my mind for awhile.

I have a socio-geographical structural/collage sculpture that I am in the midst of designing. I am working with squared wooden tiles akin to scrabble pieces at the moment and trying to find the best compostion that I can come up with. I've tried braille but the spacings aren't aesthetic enough. This was the idea that I came up with at the CCC on Thursday. It went down well and I think it will form a large segment of my final 2011 piece. For now, I need to buy a large portion of white form-board and paint is a delicious shade of concrete grey. and then the fun will begin with the composing and the laying down of slabs. I may need help from the Architectural School on the seventh floor of the Chatham Building..need proper guidance and some backing.

The architectural work needs planning, researching and some meetings up with relevant people. I am super serious about this venture and I need to tread very carefully, it may make something out of what I may become...

The piece for the up and coming exhibtion at the Link gallery next week and the work that I have just started and finally finished this afternoon is an A2 sized Merz collage that incorporates found wood and copperplate together with a scrawled Polaroid. It is based on the concept of disassociated memory and is entitled [a piece of me has become immortal, beyond my contol]. The title may be ambitious but it took me weeks to come up with a tiltle even though I had no work to attibute it too. For me, The title usually comes first, as well as the subject matter and the finished product evolves over time.

I scrapped the last work because I felt it didn't show what I was capable of and was jusdt a little simplistic..it may resurface again under another guise though.