Weeks Reflections

Following on from a very practical 2 weeks this week has been based more on research and reading. Through exploring my own thoughts I often find myself with my mind ahead of the verbalisation of thought. There is a moment that occurs where one is between a thought and the understanding of that thought. The way the mind fumbles around its own thoughts paired with a refreshed interest in the feature of a hand in works I have begun to develop an idea for a video. As a hand struggles to grasp a piece of paper on a flat surface the mind struggles to grasp what it is already thinking. I would like to capture this moment on video, the hand exploring the behaviour of the paper. Even through thinking about this video I know that it will convey something but i am not set on what that is. It is a grasping of your own thoughts although this time they are visual. The development for works often materialise this way. There is a knowing and trusting in an idea that makes you follow through with it and when it then feeds back to you even more that you put into it a feeling of success arrises.

images of hand – red balls, balloon, hoverly, hand photos artist, hand exploring space artist. tim davies

This week the installation in the project space and spending time with the work and exploring the works response when composed differently within the space. A tutorial with Craig Barber involved talking about making and breaking the work. The importance in finding the compositional breaking point where the work is no longer ‘right’. Through pushing these boundaries new area of the room come into play and interact with the works. The ‘Hoverly’ piece and ‘Is My Blue Your Blue’ – bench and wall piece are two seperate works but through pushing the limits of works the interactions between these works intensify. There is sound playing with Hoverly which i have found, along with the video, draw people to this work first. The positioning of the sound being exclusively a part of this piece could be a strong player in why this occurred. It would be interesting to consider the sound a part of both pieces, unifying them within the space.