{"id":4054,"date":"2012-11-22T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/22\/work-in-progress-mixed-media-on-canvas\/"},"modified":"2024-02-01T15:00:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T15:00:19","slug":"work-in-progress-mixed-media-on-canvas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/22\/work-in-progress-mixed-media-on-canvas\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4054 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/22\/work-in-progress-mixed-media-on-canvas\/attachment\/4055\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tumblr_mdwfn3rFnr1qcztaao1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tumblr_mdwfn3rFnr1qcztaao1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tumblr_mdwfn3rFnr1qcztaao1_1280-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tumblr_mdwfn3rFnr1qcztaao1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tumblr_mdwfn3rFnr1qcztaao1_1280-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tumblr_mdwfn3rFnr1qcztaao1_1280-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tumblr_mdwfn3rFnr1qcztaao1_1280-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tumblr_mdwfn3rFnr1qcztaao1_1280-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tumblr_mdwfn3rFnr1qcztaao1_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Work in progress, mixed media on canvas, 100x100cm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So, I salvaged this old canvas from my friends&rsquo; apartment recently because they were moving out. (<a href=\"http:\/\/kaisercaimo.tumblr.com\/post\/9121043007\/in-line-with-the-previous-post-about-destruction\" title=\"Square\">Here&rsquo;s an overview<\/a> of its troubled history.)\u00a0Over the years in their smoky living room it had gathered layer upon layer of dust and nicotine and cobwebs so by the time I retrieved it, it consisted of several failed\u00a0paintings buried a hazy field of white paint, now yellowed and filthy with a sticky film of grime.<\/p>\n<p>I took it home, cleaned it down with turpentine and added a fresh coat\u00a0of gesso, deliberately thin and patchy so as not to drown the textures. I even primed the back, to cover a few fraying weaknesses in the canvas and stifle an incipient\u00a0mould colony.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It probably hardly seems worth saving, but honestly, I love this sort of work. The older and more layered a painting is, the more it engages me. The thick crust of\u00a0failure palpably marring the surface doesn&rsquo;t bother me in the least. I just think: <em>now we&rsquo;re getting somewhere<\/em>. Whatever I might ultimately make of it, I feel like it\u00a0will be a more honest work because it at least alludes to all the past experiences and investigations and breakdowns that inform the final layer. I don&rsquo;t want to conjure\u00a0an image out of the ether, like an uninformed opinion. I don&rsquo;t want the painting to look as if it unfolded all at once, like a storm. I want to see the changing of\u00a0seasons, I want to detect some unfathomable unravelling, like the rotation of a galaxy. Chances are there have been many false starts, much doubt, several fruitless\u00a0excursions that seemed promising at the time, and at least one abject surrender in every painting of worth that I have made. All the better if some symptom of it all remains visible.<\/p>\n<p>Why<em> shouldn&rsquo;t<\/em> a painting have scars?\u00a0I have scars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So I&rsquo;ve started again, building new layers. I still don&rsquo;t know where it&rsquo;s going.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work in progress, mixed media on canvas, 100x100cm.\u00a0 So, I salvaged this old canvas from my friends&rsquo; apartment recently because they were moving out. (Here&rsquo;s an overview of its troubled history.)\u00a0Over the years in their smoky living room it had gathered layer upon layer of dust and nicotine and cobwebs so by the time I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/22\/work-in-progress-mixed-media-on-canvas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[460,159,461,63,462,70,42,68],"class_list":["post-4054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-archaelogy","tag-art","tag-art-theory","tag-kaiser-caimo","tag-layers","tag-oil-painting","tag-painting","tag-work-in-progress","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4056,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054\/revisions\/4056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}