Week 1

Brief: Artwork that reflects a single verb chosen from a list of 20 that I wrote down, all relating to my artwork somehow.

Verb: Glitch

Materials: Acrylic paint, plastic wrap, canvas, hessian, tulle, cloth towel

After establishing the perfect system, I decided to create prints of the circle in such a hazardous way that an error would eventually occur naturally. Printing is a famously error-filled medium with a "perfect print" being rare, so printing on non-traditional surfaces such as plastic wrap and other textiles was bound to create error.

What I didn't plan for was the ink of the print going straight through the tulle I was printing on an onto the towel I had placed down to protect my table from ink.

A genuine glitch.

Glitch

When planning this artwork I considered what the true definition of a glitch was and devised my own:

A visible error or disruption to an otherwise perfect system.

So to create an artwork that embodied the word "glitch" I had to genuinely create an error, not manufacture one.

First I established a "perfect system" or recognisable regularity that could easily be broken; the black circle. A simple shape that would easily be recognised as perfect or imperfect by most humans.

The towel was then decidedly displayed next to the finished artwork, exhibiting this genuine glitch in my making process.