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  • A painting’s background in Virginia Woolf’s 1927 novel ‘To the Lighthouse’

    A painting’s background in Virginia Woolf’s 1927 novel ‘To the Lighthouse’

    Encyclopaedia of a painting’s background

She scrutinises her canvas on the easel and wonders how to connect the right window to the left hedge in her painting. How can she break the empty foreground? Isle of Skye summer holiday houseScale: 1 centimetre = 1 metre With a canvas 60 cm wide and a point of view…

  • Red space holder: forget remember

    Red space holder: forget remember

    How a physical space holds thought’s movement as it seeks the central point of a work of art.

  • behind you: red

    behind you: red

    ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF MEMORY IN ART ‘That’s opposite to how I see it’, said the artist. ‘The artwork’s whole consists of a small actual part and a large thought part, behind you.’ ‘No, no, no’, replied the viewer. ‘It consists of a large actual part and a small thought part, behind you.’ Details on the watercolour…

  • ABC art: blue cube

    ABC art: blue cube

  • ABC art: red cube

    ABC art: red cube

    ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE ABC IN ART HISTORYArt historian A insists the meaning of this work of art can be found in room one. Upon rushing through the passageway to room one, however, we could not find any meaning. Art historian B’s books all conclude with the meaning of this work of art being found in room two. Upon…

  • behind you: blue

    behind you: blue

    Spatial process completed by forever turning to find the missing part in memory behind you.

  • The Big Coverup: white with blue stripe

    The Big Coverup: white with blue stripe

    ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF INVISIBLE ARTFive paintings atop of the stairs of whispers are suspected of containing encoded, top-secret information. Suspiciously, the owners claim the paintings are just primed canvases – depicting nothing – that have been covered up recently due to attracting nuisance crowds of unwarranted sightseers. Your mission is to go undercover and reveal the…

  • a sculptural situation to enter, and to leave

    a sculptural situation to enter, and to leave

    The space is a floor plan of a table at which to sit, with a library of entrances.

  • art opinion no. 637

    art opinion no. 637

  • difficult art decisions: wall six

    difficult art decisions: wall six

    Space spans the connection between an artwork newly installed on wall 6, and the awkward coincidence of the same material used in a chair’s cushion in the room housing the newly installed artwork.

  • art opinion no. 636

    art opinion no. 636

  • To make a work of spontaneous art

    To make a work of spontaneous art

    Is actual space in art spontaneous? Can we instantly see it? Can we immediately differentiate an artwork’s space from the space of a room? Shouldn’t it be as automatic as the four legs of a chair? Or, are we having to reach for it before it falls — with some moments met and others missed?

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Gail Hastings