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"Poke at my iris, why can't I cry about this?
Maybe there is something that you know that I don't?"

Third Year, Semester Two, Week 8

Made these really quickly today, was planning to scan them in to laser cut them into glass/ acrylic/ metal/ wood, but I quite like them as they are right now. Excerpts from a journal I kept over the summer, documenting every visit I made to my Gran, her funeral, and the beginnings of clearing the house. The house is currently on the market, and will probably be sold some time this week end or next week.

Each piece is approx 5 x 4 inches, written in HB pencil. Click on image to enlarge.

Third Year, Semester 2, Week 7

A0 Print, 2 slide projector (one an automated carousel), 2 boxes, 1 light box, 3 transparencies.

Third Year, Semester 2, Week 7

A little bit of what I've been up to over the past two weeks;

I'm projecting slide shows into my images from first semester using a carousel slide projector. The slides were taken from my Grans house and ordered in the dates that they were taken, but I removed all the slides of my Grandparents and left gaps and empty slides in the carousel respectively (Although I prefer nothing being in the carousel to using empty slides - the whole room lights up!). Currently working on scanning my images better quality so that I can get them printed larger (A1 or A0) and so work with larger projections. At the moment the projector has to be very close to the image, and so the work appears more as a single piece, but I want it to be an immersive experience - the viewer will see the photographs/ slides, as well as hear the clicking of the carousel and the empty spaces will fill the room with light.

Using a carousel projector as it doesn't require someone to change the slides manually - the order of slides can be preselected, and the show doesn't have a distinctive beginning/ ending.

I have lots of videos of it, but they don't seem to want to load on here.

Third Year, Semester Two, Week 7

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.

Third Year, Semester Two, Week Five

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.

Collecting a slide projector off my sister later on this afternoon, hopefully it will keep me busy and full of ideas for the next week or so, until I am able to photograph at the house again.

Letters to Granny

My Moleskin is coming along nicely. On Friday my Dad did the first house viewings for the house going on the market.