Today I got the results back for Final Major Project 1. I was overjoyed to hear the news that I had got 77% which is fantastic and I feel like all my hard work was really worth it!
As in my last post, I talked about dust becoming transcendent and how I am addressing our proximity with dust both within practice and writing. Recently I purchased a microscope in which to view dust and debris through, the images displayed before me were incredible, and fantastical new worlds opened up. I had to capture these, but the difficulty of doing so hindered. I used my SLR pointed down the tiny lens of the microscope which was very hit and miss, especially with focussing. However through perseverance I accomplished bringing these idiosyncratic and beautiful images into the photographic, with the dark borders of the eyepiece drawing focus to the wispy delicate forms within the specimen.
The laboratory trope has really informed and excited me throughout this work, allowing me to use entirely new processes and gaining new ways of seeing the matter I am exploring. The processes can be obsessive and demanding and I am continuously re experimenting, testing, labelling and documenting, but what comes out of these makes me step back, amazed at what beautiful things can come from dust and the discarded.
