This started with a life drawing I did back in April. The model in the Bauhaus chair seemed to be an image I could work with. But moving from the isolated drawing to this has been a laborious process. There have been several false starts as I began thinking about colour and then the context that the colour implies. I find that if you're struggling like this and over-thinking a problem it's best to put it aside and move on with something else. So that's what I did.
And this week a post from Pressing Matters advertising their competition for Issue #37 appeared in my Instagram - Black and Pink, it said. That was the answer I was looking for. It banished the complexity from my thoughts about a possible print, and gave me the context of a Blackout curtain and the blackness through the window.
The title was the next problem, and I've spent the last few days agonising over it while cutting and printing. The directions I could have gone are some variant on "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose" - but that seems a bigger picture for another time, and on the other hand, the word "Blackout" was quite appealing. But I've just had a lie down for an hour and woke up thinking about Tal R's "Model alone in the studio", which took me to a Japanese thriller series called "Hitorishizuka", which I felt had a kind of implication of "Shizuka (the protagonist) Alone" or maybe "The Quiet One". I'm pretty certain this is it, I'm a great one for trusting in the divine power of sleep.
Anyway. Next thing is to enter it in the Pressing Matters competition. Which I think I'll do tomorrow.
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