Watering the Plants and art...

Ahh watering the plants...
white cabbages, red cabbages, tomatoes, runners beans, peas and figs.
And many more I don't know the name of.
But I don't need to know.
I come back to them every week,
And see the difference.
They look different from my previous stare
But I keep working with them
Nurture them,
Accidentally stand on them
Interference.Positive/negative I don't know.
And the outcome..
sweet juicy tomatoes or watery cabbage soup
I don't know.
Ah but how I enjoy watering those plants.....

Photographic experimentation 29/06/09

The above experimentation's are a result of having too many photographs of my degree show, so i decided to play with them. Experiment with perspective, illusion, form and line and also with the re-representation. Representation? What is it that I am representing. Can a photograph only ever just represent or can it be seen as a material that we handle/manipulate with our hands and eyes. i don't mean the camera, I mean the given out-put, the photograph. But then I suppose the camera can not be separated from the produced image, it is part of it's materiality. Can a photograph have a materiality? What i also like in these images is the line that travels through, the extension. The line that plays around with what is real and what isn't in the images. The line that draws and disturbs, but represent?

Degree Show Finale

The week of viewing has finished and I just wanted to write some thoughts about it.

Why 4o'clock closing, we could have had one late night until 8/9 o'clock and had free York St John wine! Yeay!!

Only a week?

When I first put my exhibition up it felt like it was uncomfortably sat at the edge of a sofa...

But after going in everyday and seeing it, getting used to it and seeing it in a different way each day, documenting it and writing some notes it now feels it's sat back comfortably. So comfortable it doesn't want to move...

Even though I feel it sits comfortably were it is I also feel that there is so much more that can be done with it. If I had a bigger space, smaller space, a different space what could it look like? I know a different space wouldn't hold this exhibition in the same way that Studio one has but a new space would have new characteristics that I could play with and manipulate.
Whilst viewing my exhibition thoughts of floor came into my head. Ripping up floor boards, half tearing them, bending them, use them as a sculptural material. That's if they were wooden floor boards. Looking at my exhibition I also feel that I could have done so much more with the fine black elastic that I used. But too much would have turned it into silly maze. Maybe...
And for now those hooks. The hooks in the ceiling. How I love those hooks.

What lies within the blue space?