23
Mar

Research of the Domestic and the Sublime

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 – […]

23
Mar

Salt

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 […]

14
Mar

Psycho Buildings and sketches

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 […]

21
Feb

Hadrian Pigott

Advised before to look at Pigott  in my second year and have been advised to look again – so reacquainted myself there is something quite beautiful about the objects that he makes – I enjoy their humour and immediate pleasure investigates fetishism of domestic manias and associated lunacy of consumer choice, social implications of consumption, […]