Assignment 2
Early Morning Dog Walk 19th April 2008
19/04/08 17:49
Recording1942008
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19th April I have been thinking a lot about my criteria especially after the first set of tutorials yesterday, the first set of presentations and I really am having difficulty whittling down my long list is getting longer and longer and my short list isn't there at all and as to picking out one practitioner I have not managed to do that at all because each of the different practitioners that I have chosen so far on the long list represent a different bit of what I think it is that I am interested in and there is no one really that crosses the span so it maybe that I shall have to tighten up on my criteria to get to my shortlisted 5 but for now I have added Elliot Erwitt last night, the photographer, and i am thinking that I should go through and look out some of the best examples of my photography from the last couple of years to add to my journal. This morning I was also thinking about my real interest in the space of the canvas or the picture plane, the depth of the picture plane how you can take photographs like the one that I took in Victoria station last week where elements of the picture come up flat onto the picture plane while other bits recede and thinking of that in relation to abstract painters I suppose and the whole concept of playing about with pictorial space and thinking of this in particular in relation to web site design and interactive media and trompe l'oeil in relation to creating a limited depth of field within the screen I am sure that there must be artists that i can find that do that I am probably a little bit short on artists working in new media and a lot of the artists that I have chosen are anichent and I am thinking of Cornell and the boxes and how that created that sort of space and that sort of interest in space, not three dimensional really and not two dimensional but somewhere in between (2.5 dimensional) containted in a box that sort of containedness that boxing in framing bracketed containing there has been a lot of that in my thought. There was something else as well. A lot of the current artists I don't really know a lot about maybe I should look a bit stronger longer at who is actually there doing it add Seth Brignal to my list to my long list. I don't particularly want to do that I think that I am quite conservative and traditional myself really oh so where am I going with these thoughts there was something else but I can't remember it at the moment I shall come back to it.
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19th April I have been thinking a lot about my criteria especially after the first set of tutorials yesterday, the first set of presentations and I really am having difficulty whittling down my long list is getting longer and longer and my short list isn't there at all and as to picking out one practitioner I have not managed to do that at all because each of the different practitioners that I have chosen so far on the long list represent a different bit of what I think it is that I am interested in and there is no one really that crosses the span so it maybe that I shall have to tighten up on my criteria to get to my shortlisted 5 but for now I have added Elliot Erwitt last night, the photographer, and i am thinking that I should go through and look out some of the best examples of my photography from the last couple of years to add to my journal. This morning I was also thinking about my real interest in the space of the canvas or the picture plane, the depth of the picture plane how you can take photographs like the one that I took in Victoria station last week where elements of the picture come up flat onto the picture plane while other bits recede and thinking of that in relation to abstract painters I suppose and the whole concept of playing about with pictorial space and thinking of this in particular in relation to web site design and interactive media and trompe l'oeil in relation to creating a limited depth of field within the screen I am sure that there must be artists that i can find that do that I am probably a little bit short on artists working in new media and a lot of the artists that I have chosen are anichent and I am thinking of Cornell and the boxes and how that created that sort of space and that sort of interest in space, not three dimensional really and not two dimensional but somewhere in between (2.5 dimensional) containted in a box that sort of containedness that boxing in framing bracketed containing there has been a lot of that in my thought. There was something else as well. A lot of the current artists I don't really know a lot about maybe I should look a bit stronger longer at who is actually there doing it add Seth Brignal to my list to my long list. I don't particularly want to do that I think that I am quite conservative and traditional myself really oh so where am I going with these thoughts there was something else but I can't remember it at the moment I shall come back to it.
Early Morning Dog Walk 9th April 2008
10/04/08 12:56
recording9408
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9th April just past the gate thinking about the criteria watched a film last night called Fur which was a fictional portrayal of the life of Diane Arbus and thinking that maybe I should add her to my list of people partly because of the photography that I do and my attempts to capture the moment with photography where people are a bit off the wall a little bit wacky which sort of does fit in with the humour bit but also leaning lots towards eroticism as a criteria, the male in art in particular the male artist I should say and the male artist in relation to the female artist the female model I suppose not the female artist and Diane Arbus very definitely in the film as portrayed by Nicole Kidman had that eroticism that also according to readings about Diane Arbus she was highly erotically charged anyway the way she was with her green eyes and that reminds me of some of the little drawings that I was doing 20 years ago the anima and the animus and the green eyes and how that relates to legends so heading back to thinking about legends, myths and legends I guess and archetypal stories.
Early Morning Dog Walk 4th April 2008
04/04/08 15:02
recording
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Walking up the hill again, early morning dog walk thoughts, lots of thinking this morning, firstly that playing around with drag and drop technology as in the website - Rapid Weaver, that's really quite a bit of my research, that is what it is that I am doing, trying to work on things that Kids can use very easily for blogs and and for creating their websites and galleries and so on, so that is my area of research, or an area of research. Another thought that sort of related to Duchamp was readymades, and my own artwork that is very much readymades, and clearing out the garage which is what I have just been doing looking at all the bits and pieces that I have collected for making readymades, that there is a sort of quirky humour to them that definitely taps in to the Wallace and Gromit feel, the cartoon feel as well as the readymade feel. That is sort of where I feel my art is which does all relate sort of to the animation and the fun and the spoons and the words and the language of it so that is really a part of my research as well and I was thinking of my collection my museum because that is a bit of artwork that I have done consistently for years and years and years and years my museum is just a collection of objects that I find when i am out walking a bit like the, walking like I am now and the way the thoughts pop into my head like the randomness of walking and clearing my head so that thoughts can pop in then now and again I find little treasures on the ground that other people have dropped, the detritus, but they become intimately precious in that I have picked them up and collected them which is in some ways, well it is not the same as Duchamp, it is very different, it certainly has a feel of the outsiders which is very definitely an area that interests me and influenced me when I was younger, maybe I should do a little more research on them. And then i plan to go and have a look at the Cranach exhibition at the Royal Academy tomorrow and possibly the Chinese Army as well and how that relates to Gormley who is another artist I really like and have been to see recently I love his steam room and I was particularly keen on his wire sculptures as well, that was on at the Haywood. So going back to my museum I could then maybe relate that back to the web would be in creating a web gallery, a web museum, that I tried doing a year or so ago but this would be more like the Steve Caplin website where you would open the draws you would actually sort of get the draw opening and inside would be the object, or maybe you would click on it like the flash gallery, you click on it and the object is there then you click on it and get the next one click on it and get the next one, and i could do that with the flash page turning thing initially, take all the photographs and turn it into a web gallery of the objects or I could try and do it like you are looking into a box with specimens and they are all catalogued and categorised, all my land-rovers and little people and al that sort of thing. Lots of close up photography, Mind you it would get the box dusted at the same time. Right, enough of this for now, lets switch off.
Ideas - thinking about my practice and what it is
16/03/08 10:51
Thinking
about the roots of animation - my childhood
favourites such as Magic Roundabout, Thunderbirds,
Bill and Ben, Noggin the Nog and the Clangers, Muffin
the Mule and Mclearan - all early influences.
Research could then reach in to the rich European tradition of puppets and animation - further east to shadow puppets - European story telling, myth and fairy tale, creation stories and legends.
I could try and get hold of Oliver Postgate....
Research could then reach in to the rich European tradition of puppets and animation - further east to shadow puppets - European story telling, myth and fairy tale, creation stories and legends.
I could try and get hold of Oliver Postgate....