after tanaka
“So this began with Atsuko Tanaka’s use of enamel paint to produce her richly saturated blobs and circles. I sourced some of those tiny Humbrol enamel paints, used, I think, for painting model planes and lead figures. In short, I just poured little puddles of enamel paint onto a sheet of perspex and allowed them to dry, before building up more concentric circles of paint over the course of a few days. That done, I then photographed the resulting ‘blobs’ against some different coloured backgrounds. After that, I wanted to somehow three-dimensionalise these blobs, because I was imagining Tanaka’s artworks as molecules in a space. I took some of my photographs into film editing software and worked with them to ‘bend’ the photographs into floating blobs. Once again, I could feel my previous life working on an animation degree surfacing, as my ‘blobs’ began to anthropomorphise into Pixar things…” June 2024
