When I thought about making a large work smaller I was inspired to write about an idea I had remembering an exhibition I saw last year at white cube viewing Anselm Kiefer’s work. Kiefer tends to work on a very large scale using lots of different media to create complex textures. In a series of his work you can see cut outs from other canvases suck onto other canvases to create even bigger pieces of work. This creates more detail in his paintings. The idea of cutting up the actual canvas is a very interesting idea to me. I’d like to experiment with this idea with an opposite effect by simplifying and making the work smaller. For example I might choose a piece I had big ambitions for, a painting that was very complex. From a painting like this I could re-work the piece by cutting around the most visible shapes and forms to take away from other complexities within the painting. I would then place this cut out onto a smaller canvas with a background that would contrast with less texture and noise. This would simplify the main aspects of the original painting and also create some interesting negative space.