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While being away from uni, I decided to give redbubble a go to see if I could sell any of my designs.
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While I’ve been in correspondence with Craig about my exhibition work I have been dabbling with new ways to edit my photos.
1 - I went backwards and started looking at my edits I did for a 60 x 60 slide projection idea I had and wondered if I could push them any further as shown in the first image. By layering a sketched and scanned image into the Girls edit, I think it has added a new kind of depth to the image. The dark saturated hues contrast the paler pastel tones of the original image.
2 - Using an app on my phone I could layer two images on top of one another to create a double exposure. Once again I then layered another image I took over the top to make an almost glitch-like effect.
3 - I used the same method as above but without the double exposure effect.
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G R O U P C R I T
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I had a group critique with Laura and instead of trying to shorthand write what we talked about I decided to voice recorded the whole thing.
We talked about my ideas and what I am thinking of doing, how I can accomplish this and how I came to this topic. Once we covered this, Laura then asked if there was anything I am currently struggling with or if there is anything I will be struggling with which I had to think about.
Developing my camera film using the experimental techniques haven’t been working well so I am going to talk to Craig about learning to develop film in development chemicals. I think something I will struggle with as the project moves forward will be manoeuvring my work to and from the exhibition site. Also I may struggle with getting my work into the building and to the room.
The Critique Group then gave me some ideas that could help me with my project and also they told me what they would get from my piece.
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C R A I G T A L K
Since speaking to Craig about my designs for the display cabinet I’ve realised that my design wasn’t feasible. He has given me a better idea of how I can achieve what I want.
1 - If I remove the LED strip lights from around the top of the case and lay them along the base of the case so they shine up, I will get a better result. To achieve the best result possible, he also said that if we use a wooden board with square holes cut out of it (same size as the slides) then it would block out the excess light from the LED strips along the bottom forcing the light through the slides. We would keep the design of the Perspex sheet to split the case horizontally, place slides on top of the Perspex and then a wooden board painted black, this would give the best result. Prior to this I would have to paint the inside of the case black as it is white at the moment.
2 - For my wall pieces we have decided on 4 shelves that are 8 inches in length, 3 inches deep and 1.5 inches thick with invisible mountings so they look like the shelves are floating. If this wasn't possible then we arranged to make 1 long shelf that would have a back wall to help support the shelf that all 4 cassette easels would sit on. We also decided to fashion something of a tiny clear Perspex shelf piece for inside the cassette easels to hold the slide up from the base of the cassette.
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Mollie has been playing with cassette tapes in the studio so while I was sifting through my slides she approached me with this idea.
I love how the cassette cases act as a little easel for the slides and the fact that they are completely clear is even better for the light to pass through.
I have spoken to Craig about making some shelves / a shelf that these could stand on. I don’t want a lot of these on a shelf.. Maybe 4 at the most as I was the majority of my slides in my display case.
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To display some of my slides that I am creating for the exhibition I have been dabbling with the idea of modifying a display case we have in the studios currently.
The above sketch is to show how I am thinking of modifying the case to turn it into a big light box.
I am going to rent a lightbox from the studio store tomorrow so I can choose which ones I want to present.
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This was an extracurricular opportunity that was open to everyone / every level on the course. The Hepworth Print fair is an annual event that is open to the public. (More info in link below) https://hepworthwakefield.org/whats-on/print-fair/
This is my print PLENTY MORE FISH which is a 3 layer lino print. Yellow base, teal bubbles and then the eye. Named after a common phrase everyone says after a breakup as self help - “There’s plenty more fish in the sea, I just have to look”
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K A T R I E N D E B L A U W E R
Katrien de Blauwer was born in the small provincial town of Ronse (Belgium). After a troubled childhood, She moved to Ghent at a young age to study painting. Later she attended the Royal Academy in Antwerp to study fashion. A study she abandoned. It was at that time she made her first collage books, actually studies and mood books for fashion collections. At a later age she began collecting, cutting and recycling images as therapeutic self investigation.
Katrien De Blauwer calls herself a "photographer without a camera". She collects and recycles pictures and photos from old magazines and papers. Her work is, at the same time, intimate, directly corresponding with our unconscious, and anonymous thanks to the use of found images and body parts that have been cut away. This way, her personal history becomes the history of everyone. The collage effects a kind of universalisation, emphasizing the impossibility to identify with a single individual, yet allowing to recognize oneself in the story. The artist becomes a neutral intermediary: without being the author of the photographs, she appropriates and integrates them into her own interior world, a world she’s revealing in third person.
Katrien De Blauwer gives new meaning and life to what is residual, saving images from destruction and including them in a new narration that combines intimacy and anonymity. Her work therefore deals with memory, basically. Memory by accumulation rather than by subtraction. Her work brings to mind the procedures of photomontage or film editing. The cut being used as a frame that marks the essential.
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O D E T T E E N G L A N D
EXCAVATIONS 2015
Home is the centre-weight of Odette England's artistic practice, with memory and forgetting being the counterbalances. Her photographs are fragile, contemplative and temporal spaces. Throughout her practice, she explores the volatility of identity, emphasizing the unstable nature of the past/present and the parent/child seesaw. These overall themes continue to be examined with Excavations, which utilizes historical photographs from the artist's family archive.
With Excavations, England undertakes a meticulous and labour-intensive process of erasing and obscuring family snapshots, sanding each one with sandpaper. The images are erased and obscured to varying degrees, leaving traces of the artist's hand. These are quiet, meditative artworks, incorporating elements of abstraction, preservation of history and nostalgia, with a critical comment on the malleability of the photograph.
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E p i s t e m e
“These images are made from expired Polaroid film without exposure by a variety of processing techniques. Prints are approximately 24 x 30” archival pigment prints on fibre paper and printed in an edition of 9.”
Definition - - (FRENCH) Ensemble des connaissances réglées (conception du monde, sciences, philosophies…) propres à un groupe social, à une époque. - Set of regulated knowledge (conception of the world, sciences, philosophies ...) specific to a social group, at a time.
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Out of all of Matthew Brandt’s work, I find the 2 collections called TREES and PORTRAITS to be the most interesting.
TREES was a study where Brandt took photographs of dying / decaying / dead trees that he has then developed and printed onto paper made from the tree that is in the photograph. I like this because it makes each piece into a life cycle, and in a way a catalogue of the past. The work I want to present for the gallery project is my way of cataloguing the past because I am appropriating old slides and bringing them back to life while in the studio I am taking my own photographs and turning them into slides for future people to look back on.
PORTRAITS was a very experimental project but I found it fascinating. Brandt had taken portraits of people but asked them for a measurement of bodily fluids so that he could develop there pictures in the fluids. This is both disgusting and completely bonkers but it’s something I have never come across before and it is a very intriguing.
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I have been working with film developing methods in the darkroom. This is something worldly different to what I am used to in my practice but I am really enjoying myself at the moment!
I have been noting down my progression in my Camera Book in the studio about all my fails and successes and how I am going to develop.
For the Gallery I wanted to possibly use light-boxes to present my slides. I will design a rough diagram at a later date for my gallery presentation.
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These photos above where taken on 2 disposable cameras I had while in Manchester buying the film for my Olympus Camera. They vary from the bus ride to the town centre and these were developed in Max Spielmann.
There's something about the quality of a disposable camera that I like - the grainy appearance of the end product maybe.
Because of these images, I am very excited to experiment with my new camera in the darkroom.
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Feedback with Dave
We received our feedback from Semester one last week and I managed to have a quick talk to Dave while he was in the studios.
He gave me some ideas to follow on from my digital edits I had been creating on LGBT erotica. He told me to start thinking about scale so I could either start making them bigger or I could go a lot smaller. This is where I had the notion to work on 35mm film instead of trying to recreate slide on acetate I could just go straight to actual camera film.
The shop ‘The Real Camera’ in Northern Quarter that sells vintage cameras got me thinking about buying a camera to go forward in experimenting. I took to eBay and found myself an Olympus OM10 35mm film camera complete with a 50mm lens and 75-200mm telephoto lens for £40. All I needed to buy was a case, strap, batteries and film and I was ready to go within the week.
I started thinking about my previous exhibition plan of projecting my work and thought about those vintage projector carousels that they used to use when showing their families holiday photos.
My next step is to speak to Craig about slide artists and photography artists so that I have ideas on where to go.
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