working on dissertation doorknobs for through the keyhole (There’s no place like Home) are taking a lot of working out, experiment and time – having to work out ways to project film into the back of a cast doorknob will attach this to a real door I am determined that this will work and feel […]
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 […]
Collaborating with Lucy Green (poetry) I wanted to animate the poetry she gave to me This particular poem of death I chose as I wanted the setting of a domestic space to reflect upon the words and the experience of the reader the bathroom sink set within the confines of the bathroom – a place […]
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 – […]
I have watched some Tarkovsky films over the Summer and have been really taken with The Mirror. The imagery is beautiful and stark. There is a beauty in the creation of layers of scenes of fragmented memory and fact within a dreamlike film which is non-linear in time that is something that I would like to […]
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
get young kids at art club to draw the houses and cut out windows and decorate the exterior – allow their young minds to visualise how they see ‘home’ may have to place on stilts to line up for an adult Project film onto already found objects – take backs away of fridges/ovens etc and […]