Homage to Susan Hiller....

I noticed that, due to my ineptness at handling a film camera, quite a few of my photos were coming out very overexposed and very colourful, and it reminded me all of Susan Hiller's work, which I am very interested in. SO I put together a SERIES of postcards, all the thumbnails of my films and the ODD pictures...Part of the SERIES summer project.

Windows.

I made a post a while ago about light! Often in spaces, light is natural from WINDOWS, and as mentioned in the post about Suki Chan and other things, light alters our perceptions of SPACES and PLACES. And so, throughout the summer, I seemed to (unknowingly) focused on drawing/photographing windows...

The theme popped out to me whilst looking through my photos from my trip to Krakow, and I noticed I had taken to drawing them as well... Possibly something to revisit in my future projects...

Reading...

Another mini series/sketchbook where I noted down all the things that I had read and the most important 'arty' readings from magazines and art books...

A few favourites:

Exploring Site Specific Art- Lots of interesting artists working with CONTINGENT spaces, and looks at a variety of artists working in unusual sites and spaces.

Installation Art- A compliation of artists, looking at what installation art actually is. A few interesting parts about Marcel Broodthaers and Susan Hiller, and there references to COLLECTIONS and museums...

The Remains of the Day- A novel, narrated by a character with meticulous (obsessive) detail and accuracy about everything he encounters whilst on a trip...

Also lots of reading/ exploring about art/random events/things was compiled into a good little folder! Hopefully, will provide me with lots of inspiration...

Valve.

The end result of my project was a SERIES of sketchbooks and mini-projects that had a relationship to everything and each other. Everything is in a different media, but not exactly pen/pencil/paint etc...

One of these was the VALVE project (my favourite), where I took the object around with me, photographing it in focus and the space around it. I have used a film camera, which has produced excellent photos colour-wise, I also took a lot of other interesting photos, ones slightly distorted by the light, or strangely exposed, which I have worked with in my DRAWING series. As I have just acquired a new film camera for my birthday, this is something I will definitely be exploring...

I wanted to think about how and why I could use an object, and I quite like how there is always something familiar throughout these photos, which without, I think they could appear quite odd. I wanted to focus on parts that are more mundane or the overlooked aspects of where I was, and so hopefully the result is a little unheimlich..

A few artists...

CYPRIEN GAILLARD

I saw a little exhibition at Manchester City Gallery, themes concerning displacement, disenchantment and decay.

His work is about engaging with the modern landscape, 'an archeologist of recent history'.
What I liked best was the video showing changing modernist utopian apartment blocks whilst listening to The Smiths ASLEEP, haunting/depressing and a little bit strange, just what I like...

HAN FENG

Chinese painter and installation artist, creates beautifully simple pieces about everyday life.

'Single, still moments in a constantly moving world'

Like the media used in the paintings, and the hanging installations are also very interesting too! I took a little bit of inspiration from these drawings for my own SERIES.

Tides.

One evening sat at home, Coast is on, with an interesting feature on tide machines! Tide machines can predict tides for any location 'a series of observed  hourly heights are mathematicaly analysed' I liked the systematic/machine/process element to them, and the drawings are beautiful! something to look back to...