Series...

As I like to do things in series, or in sequence I have decided this will be a general theme to my sketchbook/summer project... SERIES- Eva Hesse: 'Series repeats absurdity'...

Also going to continue thinking about spaces and places... Thinking about Suki Chan, and applying her ideas about light, movement and sound to the places I go and people I see...

Susan Hillers interpretation of installation (From 'The Everyday', documents of contemporary art) is also quite interesting, describing an installation as:
'Something that occupys a site in such a way that objects, spaces, light, distances, sounds- everything that inhibits the site- everything is defined by its relationship to all other things'

This got me thinking, that my book will generally be an interest in anything and anything I see, as a whole or individual, space object, and so will be an exploration of RELATIONSHIP to them, or history.

I have recently acquired a valve, a little radio one, that produces natural distortion (when in a device of some sort) and so I am planning to take this object with me around and photograph it a little in different places, with a film camera and a digital, and see what happens...

Valves...

Artists research- Janet Hodsgon...

JANET HODSGON


Janet Hodsgon is an artist with an interest in time and history, creating installations and ‘inscribing’ places inspired by archeological drawings.

She is interested in archeology, in the removal of objects in a site,  but mostly in the way DRAW TIME,  in particular the stratigraphic drawings and diagrams and how they provide a visual way of seeing time, such as the Harris Matrix calendar which allows archeologists to see the stratigraphic sequences of complex sites...

Stratigraphy

Harris Matrix calendar

Her work

THE PITS- sandblasted engraved drawings into the stones in Whitefriars, exact stratigraphic copies of the site…

HISTORY LESSONS–video recording the fictional restaging of everyday life of the building in its previous incarnation as a Victorian school. Her videos in terms of history have 'evolved into an investigation of relationships that are as mush about location  and dislocation, as they are about what was, what is and what might be’... sounds eerie! 

Other interesting points from a small essay I found (SEEING TIME/WRITING PLACE)

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      -‘calendars and clocks faces are two ways in which we can see absolute time, for TIME has no physical reality, but is inherent in most things, it must be translated to a diagrammatic form to be understood as sequence or schedule’ – so stratigraphic diagrams fit into this.

- MATRIX- the word matrix was used often…definition- an environment or materials in which something develops.

-Architectural  drawings are representations of spaces., in a professional sense, but this could be transferred into more conceptual ideas…

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The main point which I found interesting was how she believes working in sites or historical places, reinscribes the past into that place provides a way of seeing time. Themes of place, site, history and time all appear, all very interesting to me, and definitely ideas I am going to experiment with over the summer...

Cloud.

I have started a mini collaborative project with a few of my friends, the focus being on CLOUDS.

It's going to be a mixture of video, sound and images, and I am hoping to do something different and challenge myself a little...

I have started a little sketchbook with a few drawings of clouds, inspired by Suki Chan's work, with drawings exploring movement and marks...

CLOUD- A visible mass of condensed water vapour floating in the atmosphere.

INSPIRATIONS- blankets, layers, colours, constant movement, ideas, space...

BLANKETS- clouds like blankets, covering and creeping into surroundings, dark and light affecting ideas of space.

IDEAS -clouds are everywhere,  reading The Drawing Book 'urban architecture is about ease of navigation, to answer problems is to defy natural form, imposing an artifical schema A GRID on natures chaos. Making a cloud more 'accesible' grid it , transform it?