Sometimes you want to retreat into your own bubble. No pawns, no distractions.
You probably know that. I'm going to show you a super trick.
My name is Astrid Moors, I am of the visual order. And you can see that again in this artwork.
In my previous studio, where I was from 2000 to 2013, I had one and only window to the corridor. See, this is what that looked like. For synergy in the building, 25kV in the Schiecentrale, Rotterdam. No window could open, because it was an all window to the corridor. And in front of the corridor was a void, with an already window to the street. OK, so I almost always had my door open to the corridor. But to see people walking by all the time, and for them to see me working all the time.... mwah.
So I painted a strip ..... yoghurt. An old theatre trick. Quick, clean, as temporary as you like. I also stuck in a row of fish-eye bulbs, but that aside. I've had that for 13 years, so it stays on for at least 10 years or so, if you stay away from it. And at this artwork, in Utrecht in 2001, I also painted yoghurt on the windows.
And so now again.
While doing odd jobs in the new building of SKAR foundation kunst accommodatie rotterdam, my landlord, I suggested that painting windows with yoghurt might be a good idea. One thing led to another and a few weeks later I was commissioned to paint the windows. There was too much visibility from outside, but also too much distraction from inside. I agreed that a maximum of half of the windows would be painted and what would be on them was up to me (my work is known to the client). I immediately thought of inside-outside, and a rhythm of course, a visual order.
I made a design for the 15-metre windows and set to work after first making a test window. This height? A little higher? Fine. And started. Full yogurt, foam roller in 2 widths, a roll-out tray and a thin 1 cm diameter round brush. Not directly copied the design, but decided in the flow of the making process what went where. The total is a vertical series changing from tree to flat, with a horizontal plane in between that was underlined 3 times at the bottom, forming a play with the radiators.
And this stays put until it is taken off. Just with water. No pain.
So much fun to do! A hard day's work and a cool result. Different outside from inside, reflection, thin net curtains, sunlight, shadow, the work is changeable.
Would you also like to retreat into your own bubble? Can I do your window?
More photos of this atwork on astridmoors.nl...
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