Rubbings from the paint

Rubbings from the paint, Moderate Studio journal, 2016

Once the paintings had dried I started taking rubbings from them. Cloth and paper laid over the raised paint, then worked until the texture lifted back off the surface as a ghost of the original.

The paint was thick enough to print itself. What had been five canvases began to multiply, the same circling image carried across onto fabric, softer and flatter than the paintings but unmistakably out of them.

There are a few short films of this from the same day, the cloth going down and coming back marked.

Rubbings from the paint, Moderate Studio journal, 2016
Rubbings from the paint, Moderate Studio journal, 2016

Part of the David Bowie case study.