Mar

Studio & pipes
setting up in the studio playing with how the sound travels and drawing with the pipes
setting up in the studio playing with how the sound travels and drawing with the pipes
researching around the domestic and found writings around the sublime of the domestic ‘sub’ latin meaning – ‘up to’ ‘limen’ meaning – ‘threshold’ or ‘lintel’ – suggesting that the sublime stops or starts at the entrance and/or exit of the home looking at origins of term, language, theory, abstract expression and contemporary art Sublime – […]
looking into how to make salt into shapes as well as using as temporary installs, carpets, tablecloths etc use the technique (using the net curtain) to create temporary rugs in outdoor places to be walked on Came across Motoi Yamamoto – an artist working with salt – he creates beautiful patterns with the salt. Any […]
took the pipes home with the intent of being mobile and versatile as to where I install sampled with sound and it travels clearly through the pipe
there has been something niggling me about the aesthetic of the white pipe it jars a little – perhaps due to its sterility and lack of prescence I have been investigating and considered spraying or making my own pipes but have found some matt black piping and accessories which give the work more authority. It […]
discovered book: Psycho Buildings – Brian Dillon, Professor Jane Rendell, Ralph Rugoff, 2008 which has some great work by artists in relationship with architecture including Rachel Whiteread, Mike Nelson, Los Carpinteros what interests me is the correlation between emotion and place – inanimate and animate – I reflect back to Hitchcock and the presence and […]
Wizard of Oz have analysed the film – and timecoded relevant/interesting parts (in orange book) need to play with sound – look at Audacity (free software) re-reading Wizard of Oz by Salman Rushdie exploring the Sublime and the Domestic door slamming – recurrent in beginning scene sound of final scene is key to research ‘Occupied […]
talking about the components which have become part of my work – can travel, adapt, install and play with ‘to construct’ – both myself and others can manipulate them we talked about Elly Thomas – an artist that I have researched before – she gave a talk here. I am going to re-read her paper […]
I had begun to draw onto images of the domestic to envisage how I could install the pipes within a real space Having discussed proposed spaces for degree show with Andy I explored all the available spaces and felt that the bottom of Belmont would suit the install. It still had the look and feel […]
Sketches of pipes Distortion of the sketches Discussing where the work is heading and how this can translate into the degree show. The pipes can travel through other spaces to carry sound along, through and into other spaces. Always pictured myself in The Goldfish Bowl but Belmont with its architecture more in keeping with a […]