First thoughts on inside/outside.

Since my last post here at Reside, the issue of scale as continued to play on my mind. Mostly I have been considering odd viewpoints around the house, looking up being the dominant angle. I understood at some point during this process that I like the idea of being small in scale to the surroundings, its what makes me feel I am enveloped within an environment, what makes me have to work hard in my mind to try to exercise the control over the time in that environment and yet have also to acknowledge that it will be difficult to do this, or ultimately that the control will be temporary. I have begun to visualise again the outside and how different it is, or if it is only the same as the inside of the house because I am the one who is there. The outside still requires vastness, the large scale of things. 

I have been giving some thought about if it would ever be possible that I could interact directly with the outside. But still, at the moment, the house is still a land in which to explore and it as begun  to be introduced to elements of distance. For the first time, I introduced the figure, simple, but enough to allow the construction to be given scale.      

Anthony Boswell 2012. 'Construction of inside/outside space.' Mixed media. Click image to enlarge.

The image dissolves some of the ambiguity of the space, but that is not the idea, I want to observe how a larger environment would be. Maybe I am thinking back to my paintings, how scale impacts on them, or how it effects the looking. I suppose it is more of this question of how do I feel faced with a place and how it is to move about within it. 

Anthony Boswell. 'Construction of inside/outside space 2'. 2012. Mixed media. Click image to enlarge.