DAVID Morris | Art

THE PLACE

55 x 120 cm

2021 – The Place took about 1,000 hours to paint. Convert that into salaryman hours and it works out at about 5 – 6 months. To sustain that level of hours with an office job is okay, but the intense concentration of painting this work meant that sessions were shorter and sometimes intermittent. There were breaks, but overall The Place took about two years to complete.

The work is intricate, Each roof tile measures about 8mm x 5mm and there were about 2,000 of them to paint. At times the intensity of that level of detail was overwhelming and there were moments when I didn’t think I could see it through.

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