I was looking for things to add into my research folder and I found this article on The Mail; there is a image 1/2 way down the article. There is a moving image/text that shows how I remember seeing letters as a child. I no longer see text in this way but I still struggle with some of my reading.
This is the way I use to see text, even on a whiteboard or on a chalkboard.
Today when making my website I found myself pulling pages out of a writing pad in frustration as I wasn’t able to do what I wanted to do. I was screwing the page up into a ball and then flattening it out, as a way to calm myself down.
I went on to do this a number of times before I actually realised what it was I was actually doing. I soon found myself becoming distracted and photographing the outcome of the website. after looking at different ways of positioning the screwed up balls and photographing them I started playing around with filters and looking at how the shadows were being changed by the filter.
The action that was taken to create this was frustration and the feeling of anxiety of it all going wrong. This screwed up ball was the tangible evidence of my feelings towards what I would have to write and put up online for the whole world to see.
I then started to wonder if anyone else had done this in the past. or if there was any reason why people choose to do this when they are frustrated with something. after all i know i’m not the only person that does this when they can’t do something.
this lead me on to find Martin Creed and his work.
Martin Creed, Work No. 88, A sheet of A4 paper crumpled into a ball, 1995
My thoughts on the work are that it is plane simple yet effective in putting across a message. I porticually like the use of shadow and the way in witch it gives more depth to the work. this showing more about a statement and how the work is plainly titled . this has mad me as a viewer think that perhaps less is more and as a person that likes to make statements with my work. this has give me a lot of food for thought.
I feel that i can make a connection between my work and Martin Creed, Work No. 88 because of the lighting. it is dimly lit. This is very simmiler to my black and white copy’s. using shadow and the fixed line of the paper creates sharp edges and folds. this i find holds my eye and i fine it more interesting to look at.
After talking to Jane in the studio I feel like I needed to reevaluate the way I display my work. I feel like I am becoming far to precious with my work which is a miss representation of what the work is actually saying. i feel i need to move away from book art its-self and look at other way show my work.
I feel it would be best to look at different ways to show my sculptures. I am thinking of bringing text and perhaps even performance art. to take my work in a new existing direction. the Performance aspect of my work came from looking at my poetry. I feel that i don’t want to brake the personal connection i feel i make with a viewer in the way I choose to display my work. as it is normally viewed individually and it is a personal jury for the viewer.
I like the fact that with my poems the viewer is reading them, not me. This takes me out of the equation and forces the viewer to read them how they feel it reads best. they can not make an opinion on the nitration ( me ) looks or sounds, my age isn’t taken into account. it is only the words that are left to be judged.
the way in witch i chose to lay my work out is done very deliberately. I leave them as hand written, with all the mistakes plane to see. I feel that something hand written holds more of a persons character. This is because you can tell a lot about a person from there hand writing. it makes what you are reading all the more real on an emotional level. This is not some thing that you are able to get from a type face.
The new direction that I a going to take my sculpture is looking at working with plaster, glass or reyscaled materials. I feel that this would better express my feeling of having to rescyled information that i have header or been told. this was one of the meany different ways in witch i was able to get round the written word when i was younger.
I think that this tied in with me giving dialog about my work could look very good in conjunction with each other. in my red idea book i have written about how i hate subtitles. as they often go off before I manage to read them. this got me thinking about how i could put up subtitles in my work but speed them up. this would make it had read. this would be a good example in my work.
i was on the telegraph website, clicking through some of the art articles when I came across this artist Alex Queral. the work is made by drawing a portrait over the pages of a phone book. He then starts to cut the image into thousands of pages to make the image become 3D. When I first looked at the images I thought that they was drawn on and this reminded me of some of the books that I have drawn on in the studio. It was only after I read into the captain’s about the work did I realise what it was that I was actually looking at.
Queral has been doing this for 14 years now and has done portraits of many famous people as well as other artists.
I was in the gym yesterday and an advert came on advertising wix to build your own website. this is the platform that I am currently using to build my website. It is pretty simple to use and I recommend it to anyone who is still looking to find a site to make their website on.
