I have decided i need to refine what i am looking at, so i am going to concentrate on just one object within the everday, looking at chairs and how they are used, when and who uses them, at what points during the day they are used etc. Looking at the form of the chairs, drawing the forms, photographing them, breaking the forms down, constructing them, reconstructing them. I am also going to continue with the ideas Steph and i had when collaborating in Skye about intruding into space and drawing lines within space.

I have decided i need to refine what i am looking at so i am going to concentrate on just one object within the everday, looking at chairs and how they are used, when and who uses them, at what points during the day they are used. Looking at the forms of the chairs, drawing the forms, photographing them, braking the forms down, constructing them, reconstructing them. I am also going to continue with the ideas Steph and i had when collaborating in skye about intruding into space and drawing lines within space.

the everday

continuing to work with the everyday project, taking part in the mapping workshop, which started to get me thinking about how all the small things about our everyday lives build up to map out things about us. Started to look at recording routes within the city, intrusion into space and how mundane everyday objects can become exciting and can be viewed in new ways and ways that the object isnt recognisable. I am also contuing to photograph everyday life around glasgow and to look into drawing and documenting forms within the everyday. I am interested in perception and how as an artist i can play with perception and make people see things in a new light.

Body object space project.

I have a few ideas for this project that i want to look into, the idea of when we go to a new place our senses become alert because it isnt the everyday to us, the norm, however to other people it is the everday. I am also interested in routine and everyday rituals, and the effects when these rituals become an obsesion. I would really like to contine to work and expreriment with video, scrutinising the everyday, perhaps using repetition as a device to show this. I would like to learn how to edit film pieces after camera recording. Other things i am thinking about are things such as the way we can make the every day, mundane things abnormal and unusual, looking at things with a fresh eye. I am going to look into ways of documenting everday objects in unusual ways. In Skye i was interested in journeys and the textural qualities of the surroundings, and the way our surrounding environment moulds our experiences.
I like the idea of passage ways and routes through a city or the countryside, and the effects when these passage ways or routes are invaded and obstructed. The idea of obstructing the rythmn of everday life. I would like to make an installation piece that the people entering the work are blindfolded so the just experience the work with their other senses.
I need to start trying out ideas, and making these ideas visual and tangeable and then narrowing or collating the ideas together.

Back to the studio- Video workshop

The trip was fantastic however It was good to get back to the studio after Skye, to begin to get back into the routines of art school. I found it difficult to get into the project however so decided to continue drawing and painting from skye, whilst at the same time researching into artists and ideas for the body object space project. Looking at Gormleys work and artists such as martin Creed and how the provoke responses in the viewers through their work.
The video workshop really interested me as i have never done film work before, although the restrictions such as only in camera editing and limited us of panning and zooming made it challenging and very restricted, i found this really interesting as it meant we could produce a film using just 2 objects, the camera and tripod in a short space of time. I definetly wasnt to experiment more with video work as i feel that i have learnt the basics of how to use a camera now and want to experiment more to learn what else this medium can do.

Skye trip

Was really excited about the Skye trip as it is somewhere i have always wanted to go. when we arrived i wasnt dissapointer, it is so beautiful and serine, i couldnt get over how quite and unspoilt is was. whilst we were sat on the mountainside drawing during the day we didnt see another person not belonging to our group. At first i felt so overwhelmed by the surroundings, so muhc so that i felt i couldnt pay it justice in my work, It took me a while to start working and i found i was much more considered in my drawing style, it was almost as though i didnt want to rush throungh and work in my usual quick expressive style in case i ruined the atmosphere. Once i did start however i started to get into landscape drawing, as i havent really done it before, i also started to think about drawing in a wider sense and started to make rubbings and use the materials around me such as stones, water and mud to make work. I started to use water to make marks using ink and dipping it in and to us sticks instead of paintbrushes to draw.
Steph and I also decided we would like to do a collaboration, so started to make a piece about a journey, winding string around poles in the sea. This piece was enjoyable to do and it was interesting to collaborate in such an environment as we shared our experinece of it together and portrayed this through the work.

Back to art school as a second year

I havent been blogging over the summer as i decided just to use the blog for the main course projects, so here is my first blog back at art school, first term of the 2nd year.
Our new brief is about Body/space/object i feel this is a really interesting brief with a lot of scope, around daily routine, the mundane and how we interact with the environment around us. I am going to start by looking at how we interact with the environment around us and taking this away, for example by sight, i will experiment with how we are affected when sight is lost. I am also interested in conditions that affect our interaction with our environment such as ocd etc, i would like to investigate this further.