exploring within the home the various activities that occur behind closed doors am reminded of being at school – the door in between the girls and boys showers where the girls kept chewed chewing gum on the hole and would then remove it to peep on the boys peepholes, tears and gaps in the […]
I have been exploring the idea of sound as another layer to my objects. Artists that have been recommended and that I feel reflect my intentions are Susan Hiller’s work ‘Witness’ (2000) – Julianne Swartz – How Deep is your Love – 2003 I have ordered some contact speakers of various sizes to use with objects wired some […]
Working with the knobs and installed into a pendulum hanging from the ceiling it swings appears heavy sound is taken from news clips surrounding Weinstein news about sexual harrassment idea of each knob having own sound and to build into a cacophony of noise starting from individual sound to layer up – unable to discern […]
I visited my local museum and found a huge amount of gems documenting the history and culture of the town Lostwithiel. This shoe made from pulped US dollars was a wedding gift in 1905. I was intrigued about the obliteration of the notes into object and souvenir. I thought of transferring this idea into personal […]
Thinking about the domestic and the home I wonder about the traces that people leave when they have gone they leave objects, clothes, memories and comfort they can be immortalised in photographs, film and audio, for some they can still dial into their telephone numbers and hear their answer message but what of the seat […]
Talked about adding sound to the films – and problem solving how to feed sound into the pendulum of doorknobs – need to speak to Andy in AV what type of sound – was thinking initially of radio sound bytes – glimpses of the day – invert, slow down etc rather than feature films – […]
My research has led me to explore memory in scientific, creative and philosophical terms. How we remember moments from our past, our home, moments from our childhood and how these memories are never really old memories but more a new memory based on the old. I wanted to create a piece based on a childhood […]
working with found materials as I would with collage – discarded objects of domestic origins slightly anthropomorphic in appearance – materials include wallpaper, spraypaint, plaster and wood
staying with the theme of home and spending time in Barcelona where on the 3rd floor you look out on the city to ‘little boxes’ everywhere – the boxes that we live in Seeing Rebecca Horn’s sculpture on the beach. Towering steel boxes teetering on each other reminded me of the homes in this city. […]