Going against my instinct with colours

I've been thinking about my use of colour and recognise that I usually choose colours that I think complement each other and work well together. Recently Ive been thinking about how to make my work more edgy, and one way I have thought of is to be less tasteful with colour. I am pushing this by  going against my natural colour palette, choosing colours that I wouldn't ordinarily choose, and also combining colours and materials that shouldn't (and don't) work together. 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Watching silicone move

Over the past couple of days I have been filming the pouring of silicone over different surfaces.

I'm interested in the contrast of materials, the glossy surface of silicone against matt cardboard, soft foam, delicate tissue paper or shiny metal.

I have been filming the blurring of colours as the silicone forms paths down a surface, and then the dripping of silicone as it reaches the edge. These change as the silicone becomes more viscose with the passing of time.

Wire drawings

Systems, contingency and intuition

Today I had a wonderful discussion about my work, making process, my ideas and artwork by other artists that I am interested in.

During the conversation, three words kept cropping up that seem central to my practice.

Systems

an assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complexor unitary whole:
any formulated, regular, or special method or plan of procedure:
due method or orderly manner of arrangement or procedure:

Contingent 

dependent for existence, occurrence, character, etc., on something not yet certain; conditional;
liable to happen or not; uncertain; possible:
happening by chance or without known cause; fortuitous; accidental:

Contingency

dependence on chance or on the fulfillment of a condition;uncertainty; fortuitousness:

Intuition

knowledge or belief obtained neither by reason nor by perception;
instinctive knowledge or belief;

a hunch or unjustified belief;















































































































































































































When considering my recent installation 'Zing', this is how these words relate to my work

System

I applied a system to the choice and order of colours for the sculptures. I followed the  colours used in a bedrock map of the Cheeseburn Grange to illustrate the layers of what is below the ground

Contingency

The plaster form on the ceiling was dependent on the prop being underneath it to hold it up

Intuition

The way that I positioned the various components and decided what to include and how to display them was based on my own 'gut feeling' or instinct