20th/03/2013
Wednesday allowed me to further concentrate my ideas and thoughts and also digests everything that I have seen and heard.
My current ideas for making the new work evolve around the themes of Geology, Mountaineering, Botany, and landscapes, whilst reframing paintings that belong to the gallery its self.
I can start to see that the piece of work that I want to build is going to be a bit of journey. I also start to realise that producing a final piece of work isn’t going to happen, due to the ambition of my work that I want to make from all the rich research that I have gathered.
So far I want the work to embrace elements from all the places and people that I have met during my residency. I also want it to have a strong reference to Geology and Dr Fossil.
I feel that I want to make a work that involves a Journey from Staffordshire, Wolverhampton, Shropshire and Wales.
I am starting to see myself become a Geologist and an exploring carrying Victorian equipment in order to survey and triangulate the three areas, and further triangulate the areas that I am working in. I am also interested in bringing out areas of myth and stories, by embellishing my findings. I am also still keen to produce machines and objects that function with a limited life expectancy, like my previous work.
I also keen to explore how the materials and objects can transform the area in which they are situated and also become something they are not. I still want them to function out of their expectancy. Like in my previous work ‘Stacked Against the Odds’
Later in the afternoon I attend a talk by David Hancock and a Art Forum event organised by Jen.
David’s talk was very insightful as it covered most of his career starting with his paintings at a degree level. I was surprised to find out that he was interested in a lot of areas that I had researched in my work, such as Symbolism, and Romanticism. I liked how he references his work with youth culture and alongside Historic paintings.
