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i don't normally "do" new years and i'm rubbish with resolutions because failure is always had. i don't need to go into details about this years though... this says it.




merry new year!

recently watched #8

saltillo, a hair on the head of john the baptist.

re: art

to define is to limit - oscar wilde, the picture of dorian gray

time & memory diary of making 2.

these images won't be part of any final work, but i wanted to make them none the less. part of my written concept explains how backgrounds are unimportant to most memories, and detatched - the only thing that links them is the fact that the event wouldn't have occured the same in any other space or time. having the objects in a white space represents this idea of the memory being in an "in-between", a place where the memory is the sum of its parts and nothing more or less.




at the moment my work is taking the road that is inevitably going to lead to "i could do that" "that isn't art" "what is the point" comments. i hate those kind of comments. explaining "art" to anyone who uses such comments is painful. but i think this work is beginning to represent exactly what i wanted to represent. i have new ideas about memory and personal memory that i didn't have at the beginning of the project which can only be a positive thing.

p.s. credit to laura boffin's camera and time for helping me actually do these ;)

time & memory diary of making 1.

favourite light is the kitchen.

this week I watched #7

except it's actually "over the last three weeks I watched"

time & memory rethink.

i've really be struggling to output my ideas for the time & memory project. i have the concept but actually making things to really justify the thought is extremely difficult and i cannot get into it, especially given the short space of time we're expected to have done something.

but i have had a new idea that may just work. this isn't to say i want to scrap my original idea but it's something i feel like i need to come back to in the future, when i have much longer to get it right. it's just something feels heavily flawed.

new idea.
using objects with a plastic and industrial connotation to explore the idea that, while we think "memories" are truth, they are in fact figments of an event and details can be made up or taken away by the individual. memories are a simple product of a process, like for instance a plastic bottle. plastic bottles don't seem much like a memory from a complicated, and emotional human being but for me they represent something very simple about us. something manufactured in a natural landscape.

i want to spray paint large bottles and other found plastic objects in the colours that evoke the memory (ie in my case, orange) and place these inside a field, isolated, in the same way i did my food sculpture. it comes with a slightly different concept, but will look similar and will take me less time to make. plastic cleaning bottles also tend to have the sturdy structure and geometric shape that i am looking for.

this is probably completely stupid to start adjusting my idea right now, but my initial one just isn't working as i'd hoped.

phase 2!