This was a great chance to collate some photographs that I had collected in Dungeness.
I particularly liked the coral hue that came through when I printed all the pages.This idea of books and putting works together in a story has inspired me to think more about collections or series of photographs.
While photographing this collection I began to notice that all the work had some kind of connection to electrical wires.I decided to give the book a title 'Lines'.The site is home to a large nuclear power station that hums in the background.I gather from some research that the power station is due to be decomissioned.
This is my dummy book printed and sewn on the edge.I travelled to Dungeness in June to record landscapes.I called this book 'Lines'.I printed the front to show the final presentation for the dummy.Looking back on the book making exercise I found it quite beneficial to once again think about order of work and correlate image to create a story.I world definitely like to work on a real book one day.
Independent reflection
What your current practice is.....
My practice involves looking at the very first methods of recording images.
I am exploring the use of the cyanotype. I am at the same time interested in intensifying the colours bought by producing cyanotypes. The subject matter is always very personal.
I have been 'playing with a large family of rocks collected by myself over the last ten years. I am particularly interested in developing the work with the rocks becoming central to all the works. The symbolism behind the rock will need to be explored further. In its infancy the work responds to a feeling of belonging (when the rock are positioned together) or of abandonment or separation when the rocks are positioned far away from each other. JUXTAPOSITION!
Stone formations often symbolize the passage from one life to the next.
I would like to think that the rocks symbolise a different phase of my life.A transition from one to another. A phase where I can think more freely about the production of photograhic art.
In this way the work is not a copy of something real (a recording) it is a moment during the development of the cyanotype that interests me the most. The latent stages of a photograph.Suspended by perhaps a digital photograph.
I am interested in colour and psychology. I would like to experiment with different types of prints.
Methodology is the systematic, theoretical analysis of the methods applied to a field of study. It comprises the theoretical analysis of the body of methods and principles associated with a branch of knowledge. Typically, it encompasses concepts such as paradigm, theoretical model, phases and quantitative or qualitative techniques.[1]
My methodology: I am interested in the time during the making of the works.The slow nature of sensitising paper and the frantic time while the work is developing in the sun. Is this a metaphor for something deeper, life. A love of slow life and then a quick speeding up.
I had a constructive meeting with Gary Macloed this week and fellow student Pierre Chemaly. I am interested in reading more about the why I need to photograph very simplistic shapes. Gary recommended reading about Flow by Mihaly Csiksgentmihalyi
I am waiting for a book called The Artists Reality: philosophies of ART by Mark Rothko
published in 2006...
One of the most important artists of the twentieth century, Mark Rothko (1903-1970) created a new and impassioned form of abstract painting over the course of his career. Rothko also wrote a number of essays and critical reviews during his lifetime, adding his thoughtful, intelligent, and opinionated voice to the debates of the contemporary art world. Although the artist never published a book of his varied and complex views, his heirs indicate that he occasionally spoke of the existence of such a manuscript to friends and colleagues. Stored in a New York City warehouse since the artist's death more than thirty years ago, this extraordinary manuscript, titled The Artist's Reality, is now being published for the first time. Probably written around 1940-41, this revelatory book discusses Rothko's ideas on the modern art world, art history, myth, beauty, the challenges of being an artist in society, the true nature of "American art," and much more. The Artist's Reality also includes an introduction by Christopher Rothko, the artist's son, who describes the discovery of the manuscript and the complicated and fascinating process of bringing the manuscript to publication. The introduction is illustrated with a small selection of relevant examples of the artist's own work as well as with reproductions of pages from the actual manuscript. The Artist's Reality will be a classic text for years to come, offering insight into both the work and the artistic philosophies of this great painter.
Ideas for this coud be:
Woodland environments photos pinned to trees.The gallery experience is one of firstly finding the gallery. This idea that we need four walls to hang work on is old fashioned.
I was thinking about the type of places to exhibit.
My double gates:
A car: moving gallery
A Farm with some large stretches of metal.
A woodland:with a set of coordinates to find the photographs.
Projection