Some scans of what I've been upto over the past few days. Photographed some colour 5x4 transparencies over the light boxes on 120 film, as I wasnt enjoying the whole instillation route the light boxes were going down. One of the quotes is from Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes where he speaks of his mothers death, and the other is from a book by Max Kondola, containing photographs of, and short texts about his fathers death.
Starting to get my dissertation research underway, so I may not be updating this as much as I would like over the next few months. I'm hoping to have the first draft written by the end of summer/ beginning of fourth year. I'm basing it on the parallels between photography and death, which I hope will form a 'personal philosophy' towards photography which I will base my fourth year practice on. Lots of things floating around in my head right now.
A little bit of what I've been upto over the past few weeks - the red cloth references the cloth covering the trolley that the coffin is presented on when viewing a body at the undertakers. The photographs taken in my Grans house, but I am still undecided on how to present it as a final piece, and how many light boxes will be included (at the moment I'm thinking 3). Also got a slide show work on the go, so hopefully I'll get some videos as records of what I have been upto recently soon.
Some 'in progress' pictures of what I've been working on over the past few weeks. I redesigned the light boxes, in metal and wood, using LED panels and spray painted them white; made a cloth to cover a stand, the idea being that it mimics the stand the coffin was presented on in the undertakers; and now working out which rooms I want to install it in and photograph it in, in my Grans house. Feeling ridiculously out of my comfort zone right now.
My Moleskin is coming along nicely. On Friday my Dad did the first house viewings for the house going on the market.
Two prints of mine in a small exhibition at college. All work included in the exhibition is from the new modules at DOJ. Images are from 5x4 colour transparencies, scanned using a flextight negative scanner, touched up in photoshop and printed to approx A3 scale on 100% cotton rag paper. Both prints are for sale - please contact if interested.
