SO, I put up a new piece this week which you can view should you be walking down along the river-trail here in brisk Milwaukee. here it is.

ABOUT THIS PIECE…

The media is acrylic on a clear adhesive vinyl. Dimensions are 22(ish)feet by 6 inches.  color concept comes from a quilt of mine with alternating base squares of red, cream, white, and blue and a repeating woven pattern of one of the same colors on each. Stencils helped with keeping the pattern synced and clean(sorta) and were made easy enough, one with vertical lines, another with perpendicular. Primed with 1 of 4 base colors, painted with one of 4 base color on top, and cut, I was left with 44 6×6inch squares with an equal amount of color and pattern represented between the whole piece.

I wanted to create a composition that was constructed without using myself in some part of it. The plan for application called for one long row pieced together in a random order. To randomize the application process I used my old, very very old SIMON game which creates a new start point(color) each time it is turned on an off which took me out of the the situation like I had wanted. Applying one of the simon colors to one of the base-color squares meant that the square with that color was then added to the composition.

Red=red, blue=blue, yellow=white, green=cream.

It was then up to me to decide if the selected square should be arranged horizontal or vertical, left to right or right to left(corners).

Left to right I started, turing the game off, then on and sticking the pieces together. About halfway through I realized that I had made an error in the overall size of the piece and that I was going to overrun the side of the building with over 25% of my piece unfinished. between the cold weather and the likelyhood of the pieces not surviving a reapplication I decided on running right up to the edge and then starting one brick below my original start point and going until I had finished. such is life and life is good.

Again, this is up now and ready to be seen in the flesh or for a patchworked better quality view, you can check out the flicker stream on the right or here. enjoy.