Can & Tela Rossa
17 Oct 21 by justatest
When I first arrived in the city, I had a lot of problems with the neighbours as I'd get up early in the morning and start sawing wood to make stretchers for canvas. Very quickly I was made realize that I'd better stop that.
I wasn´t really used to the etiquette of living in an apartment block, and having to go out early every day for my dishwashing job meant I´d need to wake around 4am to first get in a few hours of my own work.
I wasn´t really used to the etiquette of living in an apartment block, and having to go out early every day for my dishwashing job meant I´d need to wake around 4am to first get in a few hours of my own work.
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Can
For this one, I went overboard a bit with the size and consequently when it was finished could be barely lifted by one person. To hang it properly took quite an effort.
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Tela Rossa
And so I began to work with garden wire netting to build forms that turned out to be robust and light. The main advantage was that it was a relatively silent process - the disadvantage being it took much longer to do.
This piece was a combination of the old process (stretched canvas) inside and outside the 'new' wire frame.
I liked the result - not only the finished work, but that the neighbours too became less hostile.