Another part of this project was to produce a second work that was based upon a response to the first piece. Instead of painting over and existing work I chose to make a work using found or discarded materials.
A piece of board out of the skip measuring approximately 3ftx4ft was painted over in grey emulsion paint and had stuck to it fragments and strips of the bed sheet which covered the original Uncensored painting during is completion. Multiple layers of emulsion from the studio were then applied over and over again building up texture. Gold leaf was added in several places to give a reflection and also as a comment on the preciousness of material and found art. With the addition of paper cut outs from a free newspaper added in 3 places trying to give the work a little context and scale. This was meant to be a work in a state of flux or evolution. The 2 works were related in the idea of using similar materials and palette, a similar size and also the ambiguity of the image.
Michael Palmer 