A lot of old themes have been reappearing through my latest experiments, and are taking my trails of thought back to last semester and unfinished lines of enquiry. Zooming in on my book transition photos has created an abstracted image of colour and movement, and put alongside one another visually replicate my series of small collograph prints. The discovery has led to the idea of potentially combining photos as a colour source with print to provide the added layer of texture to the images. This will also allow me to experiment between the clash of outer and inner environments, like I have attempted with these reactive drawings to my tinnitus over the top of selected shots. Outer and inner environments also appears in the inspection of the photocopies I made of my till receipt works; reminding me of some sort of internal scan like an X-ray or CT scan. This relates back to the work of Chris Drury whose work explores the visual and spiritual relationships between human and environment, in addition to the idea of scale; the clash of micro and macro. I have also made the orientation of these images ambiguous by using the circle to frame it; there is no ‘right’ way up. The same goes for the experiments that involved the cutting and rearranging of the image; the subject matter becomes abstracted and the orientation questionable. All of my recent experiments pose the question of scale, and how these pieces could be viewed. At the same time as being viewed on a very large scale, they could also be taken down to tiny proportions and be interpreted in a completely different way. Are you looking at an aerial photograph or a specimen under a microscope? The mention of a microscope has also brought to my attention the potential to use viewing devices to invite the viewer to look at my work in a particular way, say from a pair of binoculars on the other side of a room to a viewfinder or hole in the wall. This kind of disorientation adds another dimension to the work and its portrayal to an audience; having work that can be installed and viewed in a number of ways allows it to take on different meanings every time it is presented, upsetting the convention on how we view art.
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AuthorThird Year BA Hons Fine Art student studying at Falmouth University Archives
April 2017
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