FIELD

I've had these pieces of  tiny furniture on my desk for a few weeks and every once in a while I add a layer of paint. Last weekRebecca suggested that I paint a surrogate to place the soap bathtubs on.  My work this week is in large part a result of mulling over that idea, playing with the soft tones (not solid tones). 

It's a work in progress. I am sitting at my desk in Wurster looking at the pictures I have posted to the blog and thinking about all the ways I could (should) make it better. I am critical that there is no real story, besides taking the tones from my painting two weeks ago. I went back to the word field for inspiration. (see definitions bellow)  

1) take away the box, make it more open, pasture like 2) what is outside the window 3) more background 4) another chair for comparison 5) fake perspective, or forced perspective, close the box, scene only visible through a hole. 6) it's already embryonic enough 7) more math, maybe a grid, maybe taken from the carpet, topographic lines 8) it's already a complex of forces that serve as causative agents in human behaviors, i think 9) the carpet is already very sponge, saturate it, flood it, tiles grid, wet feet 10) more familiar 

1. 1a (1) :  an open land area free of woods and buildings (2) :  an area of land marked by the presence of particular objects or features <dune fields>b (1) :  an area of cleared enclosed land used for cultivation or pasture <a fieldof wheat> (2) :  land containing a natural resource (3) :  airfieldc :  the place where a battle is fought; also :  battled :  a large unbroken expanse (as of ice)
2. 2a :  an area or division of an activity, subject, or professionb :  the sphere of practical operation outside a base (as a laboratory, office, or factory) <geologists working in the field>c :  an area for military exercises or maneuversd (1) :  an area constructed, equipped, or marked for sports (2) :  the portion of an indoor or outdoor sports area enclosed by the running track and on which field events are conducted (3) :  any of the three sections of a baseball outfield <hits to all fields>
3. 3:  a space on which something is drawn or projected: asa :  the space on the surface of a coin, medal, or seal that does not contain the designb :  the ground of each division in a flagc :  the whole surface of an escutcheon
4. 4:  the individuals that make up all or part of the participants in a contest;especially :  all participants with the exception of the favorite or the winner in a contest where more than two are entered
5. 5:  the area visible through the lens of an optical instrument
6. 6a :  a region or space in which a given effect (as magnetism) existsb :  a region of embryonic tissue capable of a particular type of differentiation<a morphogenetic field>
7. 7:  a set of mathematical elements that is subject to two binary operations the second of which is distributive relative to the first and that constitutes a commutative group under the first operation and also under the second if the zero or unit element under the first is omitted
8. 8:  a complex of forces that serve as causative agents in human behavior
9. 9:  a series of drain tiles and an absorption area for septic-tank outflow
10. 10:  a particular area (as of a record in a database) in which the same type of information is regularly recorded

I have been working in bursts over many days, trying out different configurations, of course it is Tuesday afternoon right before class that I want to change everything. That said, it was a lot of fun to make.