Today is new Moon, which is a nice opportunity to write about the Moon for a bit (again…)
Some time ago now, I started a little series of semi-abstract pictures of the Moon. Mostly spontaneous, sometimes even completely accidental and done with whatever materials are close at hand or spring to mind: wax, coffee grounds, blackest black pigment and have included photography, negative space, ghostly imprints of “proper” drawings…
They were never really intended as anything much really, they still aren’t, but I’ve enjoyed looking back at them all and curating them today.
There may be more to come, there may not be, but they’ve served as inspirational accidents, low-pressure experimentation and
welcome breaks from detail
I call them my “Lunar Abstractions,” the Moon as an abstract concept. Because a cold, impervious ball of rock in the sky doesn’t justify the amount of time I spend on it. Metaphorically speaking of course…
Some, like the one above are deliberate (I put this one in an exhibiton.) The one below was also more structured and has been resurrected as a work in progress (stay tuned…)
And others, like the following two, are just spacey close-ups of my morning coffee…
This last one was a chance find, I opened up my black sketchbook and there was a new Moon on a new Moon! Cosmic coincidence…
Holly Holt 