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 […]
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 […]
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
Object Reader – book Haim Steinbach Trash Humpers Kasper Hauser I questionned if it’s a problem for my work to be too literal – is it? Perhaps the faces of the politicians on grater is too much – should try to reduce them – or perhaps not! play with the object – mouse trap, on […]
So I just got a text to say that my neighbour has died….do I rush back?……for what?…….to see another empty body….. a cold and waxy corpse……………what’s the rush what will happen if I don’t go, will she die again? I block the pain out. It can’t renter my body – I will not allow that. […]
GRATER am in workshop constructing the grater which is quite time involved – am exploring different possibilites and finding ways in which to achieve best result pleased so far with how it looks – the effect of punching holes into the steel has created a look from the back of something softer like a mattress […]
order metal rods to make large cheese grater started to make maquette for bird wings for second grater – have researched kinetic wings and found a perfect design which I am trying to recreate and adapt (www.mymodernnet.com) looked at using balsa wood, cables/buttons, string/cables – looked at elastic band wind up mechanism. decided to make […]