The name of the game this week has been preparing for the assessment of the first big practical module , the research module – Negotiated Study 1 which happens next week. I have managed to prepare my space ahead of the game so I’m in the luxurious position of having 2 days this week where I can make work for my own sake, without a deadline to meet.
Images attached – they don’t show the light boxes very well so I’ll take some close-ups tomorrow.
Here’s a link to my gimme shelter Blurb book. I couldn’t get Blurb’s embed codes for book preview to work here. Anyone know how to do it?
Here’s a short video intended to be seen as a loop running alongside the Gimme Shelter material. It’s based on a childhood experience of suddenly seeing my bedroom upside down. It may or may not represent the psychological landscape inside the huts. The title comes from the Smog/Bill Callaghan song of the same name.
Teenage Spaceship 2mins 2 secs
All has been quiet over Christmas due to flu and the fact that college closed early due to snow meaning I couldn’t access my work, I had started a series of drawings which I had hoped to continue; now all hell breaks loose. Dissertation first draft has to be in this week and the first big practical module assessment happens in 10 days time.
Our studio spaces are generous by most standards but still limited for showing, we get to spread out a little more for the degree show.
The plan for this assessment is to show 4 of the models, 3 on individual shelves, one on an old cabinet which seems to suit. There’ll be 4 sets of doctored Estate Agent’s details, 4 drawings and 4 hipstamatics. I’m still sourcing lightbox materials for the Hipstas so they may have to be shown as prints in the interim. The different formats should reinforce each other and set up some interesting visual rhymes.
Having a dialogue with Richard Taylor over the last couple of weeks has really made me focus on the formats and how they affect the resonances the work produces and I’d like to research that more in time. I’ve been wondering what would happen if I drew individual sheets of corrugated iron, doors, windows etc and then assembled them into hut models. I’ve always thought of the models as drawings anyway, I’d love to see what happens and what happens when they’re in turn photographed. So much to do so little time. It’s funny, I’m not very good at drawing traditionally (ie with a pen or pencil on paper) from my imagination. Yet I had no problem producing the 3D models from my imagination and have then been able to draw them. Strange.
Finally, I’m editing an enigmatic little video from the interior of my childhood home which chimes with the memory resonances of the hipstamatics and may or may not represent the interior of the huts. I’ll try and post details this week though priority has to be with the assessment at the moment. Meanwhile here are some hipstas of the ballpoint drawings.
