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?

Drawing/sculpture/Installation as research

The works above are a selection of images from my final degree show. The works explore notions of space, perception, representation, re-representation, drawing, sculpture and installation. I plan to use this work whilst it is currently still installed as a starting point to generate new works. I intend to go in every day for the next week and draw from the exhibition, using various materials. This then keeps this idea of drawing and sculpture on the same level; construction, deconstruction, reconstruction.

A way to generate...

Draw from new work
Draw from installation
Begin [again]
To transform what is already there.
Paper
Drawing tools
And start again...

Not knowing...

'Not knowing in life leads to a not knowing in art'...Eva Hesse

I need to think...

Drawing as Process

Drawing; a continuum, a never-ending recursive repetition - the same and different; an enduring companion to all other practice. Line and tone, irrespective and independent of painting, sculpture, installation, video, performance - discrete and self-containing; describing itself and self-defining whilst simultaneously defying definition - a contradiction; not contingent - independent and related, connected and standing alone - simple,complex, vital and ancient - venerable testifier to our mark-making compulsion.