Mending

I love the marks that the team are making as they repair the gyproc. so beautiful and subtle. Years ago I made a book "Why I Paint" [link here] using the photos I had taken of a friends renovation; all sorts of marks, repairing the broken and damaged walls and soon lost beneath a coat of paint.

Trowel, 2016

Plaster, gyproc, 2016

2. Plaster and gyproc, 2016

3. Plaster and gyproc, 2016

4. Plaster and gyproc, 2016

Finding Level

Before they lay down the tiles David had to find out how level the floor was and used a laser beam, which they then use as a mark to measure down to the floor; needless to say I was entranced with the glowing pink line tracing itself around the room. And where they had taken off the baseboard  it looked like lines of audio files, I wondered what song they were singing.

Laser line 1, 2015

laser line 2, 2015

laser line 3, 2015

laser line 4, with what resembles an audio file, 2015

Where Things Start

Last fall a friend was renovating her house and while the fellows taping and filling in the joints of the gyproc were working I took these photos. The men were making the most beautiful marks and patterns on the walls. Something I had previously overlooked. I loved the subtle color, the white on white as the filler dried. All would be covered over and lost when the walls were painted. These photos became the source material for the book "Why I Paint". As I put together the last book in my tiny edition edition of 5, it's  a pleasure to revisit where it all started.

Plaster marks