It is the height of summer, the windows are wide open and a faint warm breeze is blowing through our apartment. The cat is laying on his back on the floor, watching me through half closed eyes, and my favourite boy is laying on the sofa, watching the Tour de France on the television. In a moment, I'll get up from this chair and get started on dinner.
Later, I think I'll go for a walk in the park and then add another layer of plaster and paint to the board that you see above. It's an example of excavating by building up layers and then scraping selected areas away - a technique I learned in this month's Plaster Studio course and book. This particular board is an experiment, nothing more than that, but it reminds me of the peeling paint of old advertisements on brick walls, something I'm quite fond of seeing in the city.
Those old advertisements are clues to a city's past, to who once lived and worked there, don't you think? Imagine if those old advertisements were titles and we could open up the brick walls like book covers...
