Quoted verbatim from the notebook…
“Inspired by the kintsugi reference in an over-elaborate “Midsommar Murders” episode, was an idea to do something to show the breaking / fixing of my world. Initially a wild dream to do something actual (porcelain skull, oops, been done lots of times!) to doing something simple with white and gold paint (skull or bust), to something elaborate (frankenstein statue on plinth, empty broken plinths on either side, lots of broken pieces on the ground. Even the name got wanky and complicated “Interstice”. A second car journey brought it back on target. Just head and shoulders bust, green + blue + white joined by gold.”
There are a bunch of things that I didn’t quite nail (textures, cramped head space) but it was one of those drawings that kept me excited to get back to it. First large format figure since Melbourne, and some on the fly decisions that worked well (making the wreath gold not white, challenging myself to paint gold not use gold metallic ink.
