Had time to reflect on my time at ucs since l had to be away, some of my past work is still resonating though,my box,s,my chairs are still there.
they have taken on a more personal dimension.
Ok clumsy bugger l am l tripped and fell sat and now have bruised ribs so why l sat resting did a sketch of my feet.
can you tell a fake when you see it !!!
everything is there but can not reach it with out pain, pain has become my new friend a reminder l must be more careful.
scary having no one there to help you up if you fall, the feeling of being alone and vulnerable.
my house is my haven but also my prison, have spent some time thinking how l will cope if l have to do this more as l get older and realise how vulnerable we become as we grow older,new perspective of life.
Perspective seems a good word to sum up my art practice since l started this journey of discovery, and it still plays a big part in creating images with perspective of how l see myself.
You see this happy and confident person in front of you but its your perspective of me and what l wish you too see but deep down l am scared of where my life will go next.
I sometimes feel sorry for myself and this seems to be when l make my best work as it pulls out very raw emotions and l become very honest with myself.
These images l took to show perspective from someone who may have restrictions in a wheelchair, which l was in last week for a few hours.
I hate people to think l am self absorbed with myself but if you don’t share things with people how will they get a better idea of how you feel.
will my images make people feel uncomfortable ? maybe but its human nature to stare even though you now its bad manners.
been thinking about one part of my installation and may try attaching the projector to a chair, maybe one from a hospital as l seem to use them more than most to put leg on which is the video piece.
would like it low down as if siting on a chair putting my leg on so its not only some where to put projector but also quite relevant this part of installation.
Its been a lovely few weeks of but still did some work, just enough to keep things ticking along. Been thinking about the space and how l want to display the work so went back to my notes of dissertation, looking at artist’s who display random objects and why they do this, as with Santiago Sierra and Spanish artist.
His piece in Kunst-Werke,Berlin 2000. viewers where condronted with boxs concealing refugees from Chechyan seeking asylum in Germany. Sierra installation implyes that silence is as powerfull as speech, in this case it is illegal for germany for immigrants to take paid work.
Michael Fried famously described exerting the same effect on the viewer as the silent presence of another person p120 – Installation Art (2005).
Feel this relates to my own practice, vidio is silent but image is strong, its my voice in images.
In my first year did a piece called My Fallen Hero which related to my relationship with my farther which a chair played a part.
“The beholder knows himself to stand in an indeterminate, open-ended – and unexacting – relation as subject to the impassive object. In fact, being distanced by such an object is not, I suggest, entirely unlike being distanced, or crowded, by the silent presence of another person; the experience of coming upon literalist objects unexpectedly – for example, in somewhat darkened rooms – can be strongly, if momentarily, disquieting in just this way.”
Michael Fried: Art and Objecthood (1967)
The link is still there l feel but moved on to my relationship with myself.
My practice is lens based with elements of Installations.Have been working with the body creating links with items l have created with my hands for others bodies.
