Tania Kovats

https://www.interaliamag.org/interviews/tania-kovats/

This article is an interview with the artist Tania Kovats, it takes the form of an interview where Kovats talks about her processes. There is a particular focus on drawing and why she thinks that the expanded field of drawing has particular relevance today.

She discusses her approach to the landscape and water in particular, articulating why water has become a central focus for her practice. She describes water as a water is a restless energy in the landscape. Kovats emphasises that her work in relation to the landscape inititally comes from the self and personal experience. I found this quote particularly interesting and relevant to the work that I am making:

We have always needed to live near water. I want my work to speak to our liquid selves, the part of our identities that is fluid and shifting and hard to hold.

 

Karl Foster writing workshop

Karl set us the task of writing about an object, ideally something that has some significance for us/ link to my work. This is my description.

Japanese fishing buoy.

This sits on the windowsill in my studio, special but gathering dust, a present from my brother, Scratches, air bubbles, indent, dimple, crack and a seam or vein. A huge green eyeball. Cold to touch but warmed by my hands. Looking through, ripples. Fits in my hand liquid stilled. Air enclosed, floats. A souvenir, not original, Japanese fishing float via ebay or vintage shop. One spike or frond is suspended inside. It is smooth to hold but my hand catches on chips in the surface. Particles and dust cling to it or are they suspended inside? Like a pond green crystal ball. I look through it, objects are distorted, it is everchanging and I am drawn in.