I remember being about 8 years old, probably still holding onto puppy chubbiness . Mum was trying to put some second hand navy cord trouser on me. the zip was quite stiff – juddering and sticking as mum tried to zip them up on me the zip loosens, but the motion of pulling it up […]
things, objeects, memories – we try to immortalise them try to gloss thema nd coat them with fondness but when the memories are destroyed by an act or a death, the memories are tarnished yet by death we try to make an idol of someone, only telling the good stories/memories gift wrapping each moment and […]
Oscar Shlema -costumes Political kitchen – Martha Rosler take picture of grater in normal places I felt really unprepared for the crit due to moving house and also due to previous studio crit which was very quiet and not very constructive. I quickly attached a rope to my grater so that would be the piece […]
Looked up Lindsay Seers work prior to the talk and read a couple of articles about her work. The fantastical world of Lindsay Seers “Her video installations transport the viewer to a cacophonous wonderland inhabited by shamans, fortune-tellers, transgender ventriloquists, and people with strange medical conditions, where multiple narrative voices and film projections disolve […]
have been in workshop making molds and wax casts of dolls arms created a ball of arms – reminds me of a jack from a childhood game – would like to roll but is very fragile interested in mixing up materials to use metal with the wax to make playful objects enjoy the art of […]
“As Spectator I was interested in Photography only for “sentimental” reasons; I wanted to explore it not as a question (a theme) but as a wound: I see, I feel, hence I notice, I observe, and I think” (Barthes, Barthes, and Howard, 1982)(Barthes, Barthes, and Howard, 1982, pp. 13 – 13) “Four image-repertoires intersect here, […]
Zips hang grater from ceiling build wendy house – metal rods for construct support – cover in cardboard – paint comically and record sounds, whispering, laughing, play inside, one seat paint body close up, squeezing, pinching develop crashing – practice hitting with force against different materials to see effects face swaps onto dolls and with […]
how does self loathing make it feel any better if pain was an object what would it look like, what would you do with it? Watched “Wild” by Jean-Marc Vallée – amazingly powerful and honest film or death, loss, destruction and self loathing
pain is difficult to describe trying to eradicate yourself of this pain I’m squeezing my flesh, rubbing and ripping at my chest I’m trying to upp that out of me, remove it from my being I squeeze and pinch my skin, dig deeper and feel the muscles to grab onto My skin is red and […]
attended the Cafe Morte meeting bottled out of applying to submit work for their previous exhibition really feel that this will enable me to collaborate and/or be involved with projects and artists across years