5. More Square & Shooting Star

(22/11/22) 
On this day I wanted to add more colour and through line / continuity to the painting. So, I added more squares in the colours I have used for the painting I used burning on. Through line in the respect of the colours I am using, for example I added a large pink square / rectangle to this painting to be more a part of the other paintings because this one has felt more of an outcast finding it’s own path. But I want to add more of the same colours I’ve been using as well as possibly some burnt elements. It remains to be seen what could be burnt onto it. But never the less adding the colour has brought this painting closer to the others. This painting still fits with the research I did on De Stijl, but adding different colours to distance itself form traditional De Stijl.
(Below pictured is the painting with added pink).
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1YaHMPsThjJqXzXyHnqD3WtQprZcOVimw

On this day I also began a new piece using filler , silver spray paint, oil paints, pillow filling, spray adhesive and burning. I have attatched a picture below, then explain more about this piece. 
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1sHcMK0V0a8x7JjnAHGZMKs0r0vz3fwqX
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1pu1yiID-2Q1q3KENpLkWpmnHAyqn7k-m
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=10sfCY1PdUktoK2E046302fVYfXIeYmFm
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1GFgANd2Q7ox2ci4T6OgYbHo_Joh3pznJ
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1sz_VyqbjKAiE4tnwZOCiZHZLeXXv-8gn
The idea for this painting came from a piece of writing I was doing, mulling over the idea of some people being destined to enter our lives and subsequently burn out again, leaving us with the vague memory and experience of them. This idea took on the visualiser of a shooting star. The process of this piece was adding paints and fillers and parts of plastic to the star and setting it on fire to get the desired texture. Also to got the black soot lines giving an effect of it shooting. Then spraying silver spray paint on the background to make it brighter and give more of a celestial feel. I am happy with this painting and how it turned out, but I need to maybe touch up the star to hide some of the white of the filler and give more depth.

Inspiration for this pice has not been something I have researched, because it came from an idea I was exploring in prose, but upon furthur reflection I am inspired to build texture and sculpt forms in such a way due to having seen how David Lynch (who I have included examples of before) creates forms on a canvas. But this piece differs in that the colours are a lot more vibrant with the silver spray and some on the star, although the burning takes care of some of the bright colours and chars and melts them into one another. I have also structurally used space in this piece as the star appears suspended in silver space, and this is something Lynch implements when representing an object in abstract space with not much context to a viewer. Below I will attach some examples. 
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1IR3tYr48vUp8vU8rdROxjbbjCR02O8W8
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=11iCOJUPAlvFCodmv2ypGrt82iIUNArMX
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1AmEuz2L7a_wbzf8n4TZZPJWAtm3fIA_G

More Later 

Lots Of Love 

John Hancock X

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