uber kunst
At the studio I sorted out the webcam so that it has a motion sensor – it has a lovely vague quality like a polaroid. I love the ambiguity.
also next was the pinhole photography, which was initially disastrous because I mixed the chemicals wrong. There was a BA student who helped me out and then let me use her developer which made all the difference.
the excitement of seeing that image come through – I am hooked! timing and taking it back and the appearance, not dissimilar to paper making in the transform and reveal.
when I finished i bumped into Ronnie the couse leader and head of photography I told him I was trying to make pictures and not doing so well but learning from my mistakes. i said it was chance. he replied that photography was scientific – true i suppose but I like to play and find out through experimenting.
and then I thought, you know I’m not really making pictures I’m documenting and at the moment i’m documenting my mistakes. those images are of things that existed in that time, not captured correctly but naively, with the most basic understanding using the previous to inform the next. using the results of my play to make the game continue, it’s not serious but the heart of it is.
the message is about misconstrewed documents and the documents I’ve made are just a story of those two hours of discovery, nothing and everything. quiet but loud. as if little me from nothing could play with the scientists and inventors and those men in suits. silly little me with my paper i bought for 95p, who knows nothing can produce an image a documnent of my little time.
