Blogging has been hard to sustain, but now recommitted after a talk from What!? Creative Agency (whatcreative.co.uk), two very knowledgeable and generous digital creatives, who explained the relevance of a web presence.
I have now made the Deposition body cast, see pic of work in progress, and all went well. Scaffolding is useful stuff, and I found a firm willing to sell it to me cheaply, and who will buy it back for the same price! The finished piece has a satisfyingly Turin-like imprint of Jesus’ body subtly on the inside, revealed when lit.I want to invite exploration, close inspection, helping people to really engage.
I am also experimenting with projecting images or light on the cast. So far I have a time-lapse of a sunset that has been turned into a sunset-sunrise loop by flipping images and editing. That may just be too many ideas on one piece. I am also wondering whether to just create a sequence of coloured light by the same technique, so the cast is lit by blood-red light fading through pinks and oranges to a blinding white. A kind of abstract crucifixion-resurrection sequence.
Here is an image I have to describe what this work is about for me. I am upside down, swinging on the bars of a familiar narrative, seeing things I never saw before, ‘unknowing ‘ things I knew, understanding it illogically, imaginatively, intuitively, inside-out, inviting others to take a look.
