My studio’s come over all symmetrical. I got lights today and a tripod, and a projector now I come to think of it.
This afternoong after an unexpected walk to the station carrying a large cardboard box and feeling a bit disreputable in crumply painty trousers (a long story), I did some good things in the studio.
I’ve been watching the projector and the throw of its light, and imagining the pencil throwing marks onto the page in the way the projector throws light onto the screen. I’ve been trying projecting onto A4 or A3 paper, sometimes with the paper vertically held 4-5″ from the wall, and I want to see how I can emphasize the throw of the projector — and its relationship to drawing — through the video it projects.
I spent a couple of hours throwing things at the wall and filming them, sometimes in slow motion. Here’s an example below. The tea strainer’s just a practicality, to see how this kind of thing works on camera. I chose it because it’s small, round, unbreakable and in the studio. Really I’m interested in things that leave marks on the page – I tried some pencils but they came out overexposed because I was holding them immediately in front of the lens and dropping them from there. I’m hoping to remedy that tomorrow.
Still haven’t been up to see that castle on the hill. I keep nearly going (I’ve found out what tram you need: the Number 50) then have some bright idea and want to try it out straight away in the studio. One of these days.
