From the Maggi Hambling talk that was a few weeks ago now, I was inspired by her installation at the 2013 SNAP Festival titled ‘War Requiem’. All the paintings in the building are portrait of of battlefield scenes, and she played an audio of Benjamin Britten’s ‘War Requiem’. During the talk Hambling played a video of her installation and it played Britten’s piece, whilst the camera was moving across the room. This gave me an idea of using video in my work as a new way of communicating. The video that I watched was not available online but I found a video of Hambling briefly talking about the whole installation, with some scenes where the audio is played along with the paintings.
She did use an audio that was not her own but already composed by a musician. So I started to think does it matter if its not my own composition? At the moment I am trying to create a video using my textured self portrait as the main focus, zooming into the whole painting looking at the mark made. I have been trying to compose my own piece on the piano, using a basic chord pattern first and see how that develops.
