CIRCLE MISTS

Circle Mists is an examination of texture, form, and subtle explorations of positive and negative space and color. This series utilizes the circle in the investigation of material, composition, and process.

 

The inspiration for this series came during the height of the lockdown due to the pandemic. I was working from home digitally reviewing and cataloguing my older works.  I was reminded that in the past I had worked quite a bit with color. I was seeing days as monotonous and blending into one another and wanted to create new work utilizing a repetitive shape and re-visiting color to represent some light and hope for the future. There was a misty haze over this time period, and from this the idea for Circle Mists developed.

 

Since my work explores the circle, I felt the best way to execute this vision was to create a series that was almost identical with only slight variations to each piece. I created one circle in the exact center of each one of these pieces to represent sameness and then created slight textures and depths into each circle representing slight variations of the sameness. I then added color and used the characteristics of the material to create a feeling of depth in the metal.