My recently abandoned approach to narrative based work (no matter how small that narrative was) resulted in closing more ideas than it opened. It was for that reason alone that it has been abandoned. The work that is currently in production is tentatively called “Rapid Prototypes” (for that matter I could have named it “Fox Force Five” and it would have really meant the same thing) I’m using a software development strategy of developing a non functional prototype on paper before building the actual enterprise. this approach is called rapid prototyping and is a quick, economical approach to exploring strategies and tactics before a timely and expensive project starts.
Where my work differs of course is that there might be questions about the “functionality” of art. So I’m not concerned with that – I am concerned with the approach to image – the what and why’s of a particular idea. This is a throwback to a much older way of working – sketches turning into further developed drawings turning into fully developed paintings. The only real difference is that my sketches and drawings are one in the same. They are in fact tools for building larger more exacting and developed artworks.
The Monoprints are a document to the process of larger artworks as well as a smaller fully investigated approach able to stand on its own.