Horizontal Composition 1 & 2 – Click on the image to view image sequence.

I recently read about Sarah Morris the artist who is currently “facing accusations of plagiarism and a multimillion-pound claim for compensation from six artists who argue that she has stolen their work… The six allege that Morris’s set of abstract paintings entitled “Origami” – a series of at least 37 works – are merely coloured-in copies of their intricate origami representations of hummingbirds, grasshoppers and other animals, birds and insects, produced using the centuries-old Japanese craft of paper-folding.”

I bought “Grid Systems” by Kimberly Elam some time ago drawn to page upon page of line diagrams in grids with the very intention of committing the exact same crime of “colouring-them-in”. Weather I have done enough to make these my own is debatable. Maybe not yet, though I don’t anticipate the Tate buying them for large sums of money but I may be tempted if they came knocking.

One of the favorite things I made last year but never got round to posting.

960 grid 12 col – Click on the image to view image sequence.

On Returning to my blog at the end of last week, as I do periodically to delete all the spam posts, I was confronted by a very scary militant looking homepage not of my making. Creative Debra had been hacked. Why anyone would do such a thing to such an inoffensive blog that no one actually looks at was beyond me until I was told, well they did it because they could, and they could because I hadn’t been installing the most recent wordpress updates. So if there is a lesson to be learnt from this sorry episode it is to keep up to date with the latest version of wordpress or have your blog hacked.

Now to reinstall a sense of calm I’ve posted some classic grid systems re-imagined as modernist masterpieces.

I’ve been thinking about the word Geo for a while, because I like geometric abstraction and also because of what I always thought of as the best ever name for a moment in art (and one of my favorite moments in art) neo-geo. A very English take on what was a very American movement.

Clearly this should have been posted at the beginning of the year, but better late than never.