Sunday, 28 February 2010
Saturday, 27 February 2010
there is....
"there is a floral suitcase filled with trinkets, closed away and filed under 'sundries'"
do objects have the same meaning when taken out of context? does it still offer me the same comfort and familiarity when placed in a clinical environment?
manchester airport collaboration
a wonderful concept from Sophie Lee, worked on with Roisin McIvor, Adam Mead, Sophie and myself. a project based around the idea of creating different narratives through slightly open doors. the work is to (hopefully!) go up in terminal 2 of Manchester airport in the near future! a very enjoyable project, a lovely group to work with!
Friday, 26 February 2010
rewards
spring is springing! my bay plant is rewarding me for leaving it alone by giving me some beautiful new leaves.
Thursday, 25 February 2010
three is a magic number
in response to a biography i have been given, i have created a triple sided book depicting three aspects of my life....and here it is!
there is....
there is a red teacup with tea stains around the lip, on the cup a red-breasted robin sings, surrounded by a ring of gold,
there is a small floral suitcase, filled with trinkets, closed away and filed under "sundries",
there is the smell of wild roses, a victorian scent that catches my nostrils and provides comfort,
there is a white plastic frame, a man and woman, both wearing glasses, sit with a candle-topped cake and smile with the occasion,
there is a child's drawing adorning a cushion case, the child smiles and the date reads 2007,
there are more frames, in them sits a little girl with white-blonde hair, she is riding a pony, she is sitting with her sister, she is running into the wind along the sea wall in her Paddington Bear blue duffel coat and red wellies, she is dancing by the christmas tree
there is a sense of loss for this little girl and her carefree world in which playdough and dens in the garden are paramount,
there is a small smile for the objects in this no-mans-land which remind her of a place she belongs,
there is a feeling of worry and uncertainty for a certainly uncertain future,
there are pangs of regret for a life she no longer lives.
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
pages and pages
a beautiful day has been had making my triple dosi-do book. it is currently in the press.....photos to follow!
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
digital takeover cont.
Looking through Facebook albums only proves to me further that a major con of digital photography is having to look at 15 different shots of the same thing that people have taken just because they can. Surely it would be better to spend the same amount of time taking one photo that is good than lots of photos that are all a bit shit?
light and absence
small details comfort me and yet fill me with
a sense of loss and longing for a life i no longer live.
digital takeover
a lot of my dissertation was based around the idea that digital is taking over and that one day the darkroom will no longer be needed. i do think this is a sad fact as although it is a frustrating place at times, i do love the darkroom.
a lot of people feel the same way and want analogue photography to continue as it is still greatly important to the photographic world.
if this is the case and people still want analogue photography to continue....STOP MAKING PAPER SO EXPENSIVE.
Sunday, 21 February 2010
the ability to fail
i think this may be the ethos of my new project..
"the ability to fail is important; otherwise you won't stick your neck out. too many people worry about the consequences so much that they miss the joy of life"
"the ability to fail is important; otherwise you won't stick your neck out. too many people worry about the consequences so much that they miss the joy of life"
numero uno.
I wouldn't consider myself a natural writer, so I apologize if this seems a little stilted to begin with. I am writing in the hope that my skills will improve enough to produce something useable in my work.
As I intend to incorporate text into my new project, I have decided it is about time I found somewhere to voice my thoughts, if not for anyone else to read them, then at least so I can go back and maybe find something useful in them.
I often think that unless a person possesses a natural ability for writing, it is difficult not to come across as a little pretentious sounding and perhaps a little false? Hopefully this will help me find out if I do in fact possess any writing talent or whether I am indeed just pretentiously rambling...
Given that I am more visual than I am verbal, I imagine this blog will contain possibly more images than text, so I will include a few here. They were taken in Holland, on several cameras I bought there for a few euros each.
I often find that too much of my time is spent worrying about whether my work has enough meaning or what I am going to say to people when they ask what it is about. This work has little to no meaning. I suppose I could say it is just documenting my life but to me that sounds too cheesy in a way, although it is sort of true.
They really are just photos I took because the subject interests me. I find these are my best photos, the ones without meaning and the ones I take because something just looks good.
I think that is a good enough reason to take them.
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