Showing posts with label mistakes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mistakes. Show all posts

March 23, 2012

Mistakes and (not) straight lines

Mistakes are part of my work. Noting, I believe, is without faults. I actually embrace the mistakes (to some extent of course...).
My guru teacher used to tell us to make peace with the process shown on a painting. "Leave your mark" he would say, "show yourself in your work. Mistakes and change of mind is an essential part of your work".
So I am not shy in showing my mistakes and the "human" side which influence my work. I also never use a ruler to do any of the cuts, not even the frame cut. I am blessed with a quite steady hand, but looking closely you can see it is all rulerless...

So I proudly show here this work (which I haven't named yet).
On the bottom corner you can see the (not) straight line, and above there's a mistake I made - not continuing the line in the background.




I am still a novice in paper-cut art. I am doing it for only 3 months. Baby steps. However, since I work a lot (I have a tendency to get addicted to the art process), these are rapid baby steps :-)
So mistakes are made all the time...

In my art I sometimes make "mistakes" on purpose...
In my mono print which I names "That's All" (see bellow) I put deliberately the words in a  mirror position.
Weird?
Maybe... but that's just me... :-)