Saw this the other day on my Facebook feed, and rather enjoyed the photographic portrayal of death as seen here – very much like parts of/much of the person disappearing. Haunting images indeed.
http://beautifuldecay.com/2014/04/06/spooky-portra…
I made The Window a few months ago. It records the passing of sunlight fading to darkness through a window. I have applied some effects and speeded the whole thing up. The vibrant orangey-yellow belongs to nature.
In making this, I was looking to represent the last day. The very last day, fading to the very last dusk …
The last day has ended.
I have been working in the studio and at home on long tall canvasses. I believe that I shall wholly or partially destroy them in the end and the result of that will be the art.
A materials forage/purchase spree is on the cards for next week.
Bill Viola, as mentioned in that early video presentation post I made – certainly a big influence where the water screen is concerned. Please see that video if you want to see how.
I have purchased nearly all of the parts to make said screen and tested the water pump. I cannot work too big, for practical reasons – but I don’t think that matters. I have other tricks up my sleeve.
I would like to re-use the screen in the future, and hence am making it to be ‘mobile’. I will project onto a wider area than the screen, using it as the central part of a projected film. I believe that I can make the area around the screen as important as the screen is.
I feel that it will be an installation that I shall make. I also feel that I want the visitor to be perturbed. After all – this is death we’re talking about.
I have also been thinking about burning, smashing-up, drowning, and ageing things. It’s a nice life.
TateShots: Venice Biennale 2007: Ocean Without A Shore, by Bill Viola
All this talk of death might make you wonder why. Well – if you’ve read my blog or watched my video post near the beginning, then you’ll perhaps understand.
I am keen to portray death as ‘perhaps not the end’ – as a sublime moment, perhaps – or a terrifying one – or a simple nothingness; or maybe all of those things.
Without life, we cannot have death – but as I seek to portray the lives of 4 people and two ‘entities’, I will only do so by illustrating their death. Just a few seconds at the end of their lives – and what might just happen.
I’ve hinted before that all that I will make might be cast aside in favour of blackness. It might be the journey I need to make to arrive at nothing. However, I am focussed on the people I am seeking to depict, and so blackness probably won’t cut it. Fear might. Anxiety might. Shock certainly would. Calm might too.
What will happen is still evolving, and at this juncture, where my blog is taken, printed and marked – it seemed like a good moment to think on it all. All is well with 6ix Souls. The making is in the making.
I am am Ian, and I am an Artist.