confessional booths/layers structure rooms to be like a house – held up by pipes perhaps hold off making 3d plaster of the pattern until Summer good way of working for me – using film & object space and spaces made two boxes – one to hang with film being projected into – I thought that […]
with Virginia Verran we were invited to not talk about our work but to listen to what others said first it was interesting and helpful to hear how people, with no prompt, how they read the piece the words that came up – memory, nostalgic, uncanny, adult/child distortion Is it a child or an adult? […]
“In dreams, nothing is lost. Childhood homes, the dead, lost toys all appear with a vividness your waking mind could not achieve. Nothing is lost but you yourself, wanderer in a terrain where even the most familiar places aren’t quite themselves and open onto the impossible.” Rebecca Solnit – A Field Guide to Getting Lost […]
Have spent time editing and making the sculpture to project film into for the 2nd year show at the Poly I suggested painting the sculpture but Lucy thought it was more appealing in its natural state I don’t want to leave it as bare wood so considered ways that would work with the Poly ( […]
NEED TO ADD FILM i was feeling very unconfident and amateur about the work that I had done leading up to this tutorial – I felt I had failed in some way to achieve the work I wanted. I made a conscious effort to try to use the tutorial for group feedback to help get […]
Lucy and I discussed my charcoal drawings and talked about perhaps mixing up the drawing by use of animation – look at William Kentridge – we discussed rather than sticking on pictures of houses, use the videos of houses and woods to project into or through the drawings. Dirt is still part of the work […]
started making house in workshop with the idea of making a translucent house to fill with dirt/mud – spent all afternoon making slabs of clay, shaping, carving with the intention of pouring resin into slaps to construct house worked all afternoon and then with one trip dropped the whole lot on the floor into a […]
this is the work that I have presented for assessment Shul, confession number one and number two are all objects that have film as part of the piece. Shul – is projected from the back – click on title to take you to page with film confession number one is projected from the back and […]
I am still working with the aesthetic of ‘houses’ and ‘homes’ and have looked at various types of UK houses. With regards to my research proposal I have also been exploring strands of thought and ways that the research will assist my studio practice
I need to hone in & focus Time & place are eternal in fairytales – solutions and happy endings are only reached through suffering woods – symbolism house – poetics fairytale – psychology I’m struggling with how to define or keep some boundary around my thinking perhaps simplify it to thinking about dual roles, 2 […]