This work starts with the destruction of an old outcome. In my art practice, I often reuse materials. These wooden boards have been sitting in my studio for a number of years now. I had a set of three and thought they would be good to use for a new project as the text on them previously was now unrelated to my art practice.
The challenge was removing the text, as I had previously tried painting over the text in black acrylic, but the text was still visible and it meant I lost the wooden board aesthetic. Next came white sprite, then sandpaper. We had a winner. Working with the grain of the wood I was able to remove the text. Some of the paint residues became embedded within the wood as I worked. But as long as the text was no longer there, I was happy, as that was the main aim.
Top to bottom, you can see that I got better at this as time went on! I found wetting the wood and working with sandpaper resulted in much cleaner wooden boards. Overall I am pleased that I've been able to get this ready to use in a new outcome.
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