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 […]
Door knobs suggested that difficult to crit as not a finished piece perhaps too static – using the pendulum idea to get the piece moving slowly that the piece could create sound in movement – use guitar strings rather than tacky fishing wire – in this way the pendulum would make sound Sink project in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The image from the confessional boxes that I have used previously were evident all over Barcelona during my Summer holiday. Not only in the churches and the confessional boxes themselves (photos above), but in the paths that you walk on away from the churches This image or symbol continues to feature in my work and […]
I was unable to gain access to the installations rooms – so had to take all the work home and set up a room to document as best as I could I think it would be so much better with a proper room in complete darkness to document and experiment with the projection I made […]
I bought a light fixture so that I could experiment with the objects that I have made and how I can install and play with light within a room. Shadows and light cause an atmosphere that I would like to push more – they resonate for me from films and stories and suit the film […]