Louis Loveless Artistic Practice Blog

One of my main interests as a fine artist is the converging of images, through collage and other means. So when I had the opportunity to learn how to bronze cast using the lost wax method, I decided it would make sense if I used this chance to explore the idea of compiling different sources of depiction, in a totally sculptural way. So, instead of my usual way of finding imagery, cutting it out and layering it with my own drawings, I decided to take some recognisable, and some less recognisable shapes and textures from the three dimensional world, and press them into clay, leaving me with an inverse copy, which I then poured liquid wax into. Once dried, I then cut the wax reliefs out, and collaged them again in a different order onto another sheet of wax, and repeated the process a few times until I was happy with the arrangement, and mixture of slightly abstracted forms, and still recognisable ones, a mixture of organic, and man made objects too. The next sta...

I have loved comics since a small child, and have continued to collect comics and graphic novels to this day, I love how we all abide by the common rules in their structure, like reading the cells from top to bottom, left to right, understanding the sequential imagery represents the passing of time, and the repeated image isn't multiple characters, but the same character, shown again and again further on in his task or adventure. These rules are simple and easy to follow, children from as young as two understanding them, but without them, the page would read as a completely different thing. In a purely conceptual sense, looking at a comic strip without this knowledge would be a whole new experience and could be interpreted in multiple different ways, much like a painting can be. So I thought about how I could bring that openness to interpretation to a comic strip, so that it could trade some of the clarity of storytelling, for a slightly more personal and open ended narrative. Perh...