{"id":544,"date":"2021-02-28T20:35:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T20:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/28\/most-of-my-attention-lately-has-been-poured-into-a\/"},"modified":"2024-01-30T18:59:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T18:59:33","slug":"most-of-my-attention-lately-has-been-poured-into-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/28\/most-of-my-attention-lately-has-been-poured-into-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-544 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/28\/most-of-my-attention-lately-has-been-poured-into-a\/attachment\/545\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" 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src=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/39138939316ffc71c19c58a839c8a02caa465b4b-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/39138939316ffc71c19c58a839c8a02caa465b4b-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/39138939316ffc71c19c58a839c8a02caa465b4b-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/39138939316ffc71c19c58a839c8a02caa465b4b-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/28\/most-of-my-attention-lately-has-been-poured-into-a\/attachment\/549\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/6b23e959a803199d0ab5ae15a6e95dc9a95ab547-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/6b23e959a803199d0ab5ae15a6e95dc9a95ab547-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/6b23e959a803199d0ab5ae15a6e95dc9a95ab547-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/kaisercaimo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/6b23e959a803199d0ab5ae15a6e95dc9a95ab547-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Most of my attention lately has been poured into a project that at one point I intended to be a quick, messy, angry zine about Direct Provision. Now it\u2019s a shaping up to be a series of approximately 30 small mixed media paintings. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s taken me a while and a fair amount of experimentation to decide what combination of techniques would let me get as close as possible to the pictures I see in my head when I think about how I want this work to look. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been reworking some old abstract paintings where I\u2019d messed around with gesso and impasto acrylic trying to generate texture using knives, clingfilm, anything that came to hand. A layer of gold metallic acrylic paint acts like trapped light so that later layers of darker oil paint are infused with warmth. 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