I can say honestly that I am not a conceptual artist. I know it's contemporary and very popular, but I would rather, with my art, be straight forward. Conceptual art just isn't my thing. My professor suggested in passing that with the parts I harvested from the Pull and Pay (see previous post for pictures), I press them on paper. At first I scoffed at the idea, mainly because I couldn't figure out a way to marry the two, conceptual and my own enjoyment. So I decided that with the parts I had gathered, I was going to dip them in ink, to mimic oil without having the issue of eroding my paper and never drying, and roll them vigorously on 8.5x11in paper. Again, this is something I did for my professor and the sake of experimentation.
This is the merry group of random parts and hood ornaments I dipped in the ink.
What I find really interesting about this group of pieces is that they almost look like Chinese brush paintings.
As I said, these were experimental and were not received well in critique. I made about 40 of these before I realized this was not what I wanted to do.
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