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Friday, 21 January 2011

THEY WORK WITH WORDS

photos of our exhibition in Flat Time House

Wednesday, 19 January 2011

Tuesday, 18 January 2011

SMASHED

the glass cracked in the frame I JUST BOUGHT. I am very upset. but I will have to display the photo without...

Monday, 17 January 2011

Untitled (Shakespeare)

...the three cropped photos of my drawing-

I am going to get the middle one printed to A2... I think it looks the best quality and I like the large space of bare latex at the bottom, it makes the dark marks appear more precarious, reflecting the ephemeral nature of the drawing.

For the show...

the plan-

Untitled (Shakespeare), 2010

framed digital photographic print and caption

(frame) 73 cm x 103 cm (image) 59.4 x 42.0 cm (A2)

Due to it's ephemeral nature, most of my work exists as documentation (such as this photo). Untitled (Shakespeare) is a photograph of a drawing made in graphite dust spread over sheet latex. I created the marks and patterns by pressing and moving my body behind the latex screen. Usually I am interested in creating ambiguous images. However in this piece, inspired by a recent lecture on reading drawings, by Stephen Farthing, and my learning during this text and image elective, I have used a caption to direct the viewer's 'reading' of the image.

Friday, 14 January 2011

John Hilliard

John Hilliard, Cause of Death?, 1974

Cropping and changing the title/caption the photo to change the way we interpret the image. Here Hilliard highlights different parts of the environment to suggest how the bird could have died.

this link has a piece of writing called-

How does text shape the understanding of photographs?

http://www.tomashein.com/blog/2009/02/02/how-does-text-shape-the-understanding-of-photographs/

Roland Barthes

semiotics

Thursday, 13 January 2011

Raymond Pettibon

We looked at the work of Raymond Pettibon in our lecture today, he was a very prolific artist and liked to almost act like a machine churning out work so that the 'artness' of his work was lost, as he was very interested in industry etc.

I really enjoy the humour and the roughness in his work.

Yet again text and image crop up! Captions very much embellish the humour of Pettibon's drawings, often the text is essential for us to understand what the drawing shows.

"No title (It sure helps)" 2002 Ink and watercolor on paper 30 x 22 1/2 inches

Pettibon, Raymond & Josh Bayer. NEW WAVY GRAVY 2 (AS OPPOSED TO OLD WAVY GRAVY): BY RAYMOND PETTIBON. Lawndale, CA: SST Publications, 1985. First Edition 1/500. 8vo. Stapled Xeroxed Wrappers. Artists' Book

Thursday, 9 December 2010

John Latham

We are using flat time house for our Text and Image show in january
I took a few photos of the exhibition space we'll have...

John Latham was the resident artist there

He worked with books and developed a theory called 'Flat Time Theory'

Friday, 26 November 2010

Flat Time House

we may potentially be exhibiting in flat time house, a gallery set up in the home of John Latham. This could be a great opportunity to create site specific work...

Farthing

Royal Academy of Arts

“Artists’ Laboratory 02, Stephen Farthing RA”

Stephen Farthing RA, 'Boucher: The Back Story', 2010. Oil on canvas, 207 x 173 cm

Stephen Farthing RA, 'Boucher: The Back Story', #2 2010. Oil on canvas, 207 x 173 cm

this painting makes me quite angry.

the gaudy colours.

the text and image have melded into an incoherent mush.

Wednesday, 24 November 2010

Provocative?

Boucher, François: Resting Girl (1751) , also known as Mademoiselle O'Murphy

Tuesday, 23 November 2010

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Friday, 12 November 2010

Graphic Novels

The first self-proclaimed graphic novels were published from 1976-1978.

Sin City, Frank Miller (2001)
The film adaptation released April 2005 was co-directed by Robert Rodriguez and Miller with 'special guest director' Quentin Tarantino.

Reference to propaganda- images of glory and power.

Extreme violence.
I think it is easier to accept such horror when presented in a static image as it appears less real and naturally drawings are some-what removed from reality.
Battle Royale
(April 2006)
Originally a novel by Koushun Takami, Battle Royale was then adapted into movie by Kinji Fukasaku. Following the popularity of the movie, Takami worked with artist Masayuki Taguchi to adapt it into a Manga.

Early comic books were primarily comedic- they illustrated comical shenanigans. But there has always been an adult nature to the world of comics, nit necessarily through violence or sexual nature, but in language and subject. The beauty of the comic book format is that images are universal and can be understood by all ages, even if certain layers of meaning may not be grasped by a younger reader.

Saturday, 6 November 2010

Analysing Image& Text

Bob and Roberta Smith
'Bomber Harris was a Woman'

I cannot find an image, but the piece is a a woman in military uniform standing next to a some sort of trailer (the mobile reality creator) on which is painted, in bold brightly coloured letters, the slogan 'Bomber Harris was a Woman, Act Normal'

Saturday, 30 October 2010

Haunch of Venison

Loud Flash was an exhibition of Punk posters from the start of the punk revolution in 1977, incidentally this coincided with the Queen's Jubilee.

After compiling a 'checklist of punk' using the posters on show as sources I felt there was definitely something very 'un-punk' about the exhibition- each poster encased in a plastic wallet arranged in fairly neat rows in a crisp white space. I think the show would have had much more impact viewed in the dingey basement of an old pub or in a derelict factory... but it was interesting to see the rebellion smothered in this space.

THE CLOCK

Christian Marclay: The Clock

Thursday, 28 October 2010

about B-movies

After watching a few examples of

history-

B movies had their heyday during the 50's where it was conventional to show a short, low budget movie before the longer main feature. This

VERB LIST

Richard Serra's verb list

to roll

to crease

to fold

to store

to bend

to shorten

to twist

to dapple

to crumple

to shave

to tear

to chip

to split

to cut

to sever

to drop

to remove

to simplify

to differ

to disarrange

to open

to mix

to splash

to knot

to spill

to droop

to flow

to curve

to lift

to inlay

to impress

to fire

to flood

to smear

to rotate

to swirl

to support

to hook

to suspend

to spread

to hang

to collect

of tension

of gravity

of entropy

of nature

of grouping

of layering

of felting

to grasp

to tighten

to bundle

to heap

to gather

to scatter

to arrange

to repair

to discard

to pair

to distribute

to surfeit

to compliment

to enclose

to surround

to encircle

to hole

to cover

to wrap

to dig

to tie

to bind

to weave

to join

to match

to laminate

to bond

to hinge

to mark

to expand

to dilute

to light

to modulate

to distill

of waves

of electromagnetic

of inertia

of ionization

of polarization

of refraction

of tides

of reflection

of equilibrium

of symmetry

of friction

to stretch

to bounce

to erase

to spray

to systematize

to refer

to force

of mapping

of location

of context

of time

of cabonization

to continue

My list of words relating to my work

trapped
surrounded
enveloped
encased
covered
wrapped
masked
cloaked
smothered
hidden
concealed
disguised
altered
deformed
deconstructed
blurred
constrained
imprisoned
contained

escaping
emerging
growing
reaching
pushing
pressuring
forcing
breaking
stretching
smuggling
fighting
writhing
surfacing

Sunday, 24 October 2010

I LOVE YOU

I picked up a nice addition for my bedroom too...

(1.5m or so in height... and quite heavy considering it's polystyrene!)

I carried the heart (like this bear) from the river to London Bridge station and took it on the train home to Hither Green.

It's amazing how simply seeing a love heart shape can trigger such a loving response from complete strangers.

I feel my experience today was quite relevant to my elective... A heart is a symbol or expression of love, so generates a positive reaction. I would have been given the same sort of attention had I been carrying a smiley face or thumbs up etc, where as a big red 'X' or a skull and cross bones conjures a completely different reactions- they carry more negative set of connotations... I am slowly reading through a book on semiotics for beginners, so I will try and analyse this further...