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 – […]
upload work to google in new group set up get kit – test and sample – combine quickly to get all things playing together I have enough theme and object to work with get monitors – embed them in things, the floor, the walls etc ideas – use monitors with interchangeable screens using different viewing […]
I suggested that work I’m intending is literal – but that’s ok perhaps symbol of the confession and the screen isn’t right as it isn’t the key theme that came out of our discussion and the work the net curtains and their subtleties are more in keeping – it is the skin of the house […]
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 […]
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 […]
staying with the theme of home and spending time in Barcelona where on the 3rd floor you look out on the city to ‘little boxes’ everywhere – the boxes that we live in Seeing Rebecca Horn’s sculpture on the beach. Towering steel boxes teetering on each other reminded me of the homes in this city. […]