IT'S OPEN

So nervous I was. The exhibition opened last night, with so many people going through it wasn't funny! I couldn't find anyone and kept getting talked to, which is good I guess... I'm very shy about these things though, I've never really liked the whole explain and warrant your work... I'd rather just put it up and make the audience or whatever feel something... I don't know! I sold two of the large pieces, which is great, and I think I get to keep the ones I like, which is also good... I think I need to get some framed. I'm always shocked when I see things properly framed... they look so good! 

and I actually completed a hefty body of work! 11+ pieces in all.. after thinking about this for so long... I've got some photos on the way...

'Red Thread' is a continuation of Clinton Hayden's graphic obsession with intimate, unspoken languages that can pierce the skin and bind two people together.

 

Inspired by two lines of fibre he discovered trailing along a fence line - joining in knots every few meters and then separating again – Hayden has created thin, sanguine screams of emotion. Isolated, red-pencilled threads sear out through white gouache on paper.

 

Hayden's works often stand as meditations on time, relationships, memory, and conversations between an intimate two.

 

-AMK 2008

 

"Our lives are now entwined, we will fall yes we're together twining" Patti Smith 'Land'

So now I'm thinking what's next? where will my next show be? what will it be about? considering I've been formulating the last one for about 4 years.... what will i work in next? I think it will be photographs, with a drawing element... maybe I should just get down to it... while hunting for a studio and the next show!

C