I paused again a little today, to reflect upon the original concept by Derrida on the subject of Deconstruction in his own terms. I also looked again at how I could be true to Derrida's challenges and methods. The thought occurred to me that Derrida's state of Undecidables, is very similar to the state of "in-between-ness" that formed a central pillar of our Liminal project.
I had been re-considering the chosen painting, for example, I wondered about using some of the more well known Grand Masters of the late 19th centrury, in particular, William Turner and perhaps one of his seascapes. However, I decided that both the works and Turner himself will have been the subject of deconstruction, and so I settled on the journey I had already started.
My choice of Benjamin Williams Leader's "Autumn in Switzerland" seemed rather well confirmed by this little reflection, the image is capable of having both undecide-ability and liminality applied to it...
So I happily continued with a complete re-start on the painting as potentially a finished artifact, but this time, I will con-temporise the image with some animation and gentle whimsicality, more acceptable in my view to a contemporary critique.
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