This blog is being made as part of on going academic research post an accredited education programme- MA Photography with Falmouth University
A definite plan for the future showing of work Inspired by the 2017 Martin McDonagh movie Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri and artist Corrine Silver I really would like to display some of my images at the locations they were made. Small town America is punctuated from the surrounding open space by series of bill-
Looking at other landscape practitioners I recalled a book I picked up at Paris Foto 2019 at the Polka Gallery. Japanscapes by Toshio Shibata. His images are wonderfully detailed but always very calm, creating simple shapes from what could be quite busy scenes Shibatas images are always harmonious both in colour and composition and I
I was particularly excited to discover this work by Jenny Odell. Given the physical restrictions imposed by my illness and then Covid as Ive already documented I was in danger of not being able to gather my source images as i’d intended. Odell in her Travel By Approximation virtual road trip, Crossing borders without even
The website was initially constructed as a work in progress vehicle but having a project title in mind early on I elected to give it a unique URL rather than being a bolt on to my commercial site. Ive provided short project description on the intro page and then a further sub description once into
Very please to be taking part in Falmouths graduating students end of year show Landings. This years theme is Metamorphosis and of course actually fits my FMP like a glove. Here is th ebrief. Microsoft Word – Landings;2020 Theme.docx “What’s happened to me? he thought. It was no dream.” Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis Over the
So as the images progress and the theme is now more or less settled deciding on a final publishing outcome needs consideration and indeed action. My options are a show, be it formal in a gallery setting or something maybe in a different environment all together, I always liked the idea of doing something environmental.
During our 121 Laura pointed me in the direction of Swiss, Netherland based artist Marwan Bassouni. His work really resonated with me both in terms of method, aesthetic and his message. His Book, New Dutch Views uses composite images to combine the interiors of Dutch Mosques with views from outside although not necessarily the actual
Gathered Leaves & From Here To There. “What function does [a picture] serve? This is the problem with work like mine – that is more lyrical than documentary. Like poetry itself, it is pretty much useless” (Soth, 2004). Alec Soths approach to publishing his work in print certainly does not follow a set routine. All
I plan to share this project via a number of means, exhibiting individual images in the environments they were created, a printed book, digitally via a dedicated websiteand eventually a whitewall gallery show. Covid rules out physical exhibitions and travel but things can change and its no reason not to at least explore what could
I thought my aim was to take topographical features from two or more countries and combine them to create a new place, I now realise these works are a reaction to my unease and anxiety with the world, finding myself unexpectedly but inevitably aligned with Metaphysical Art (the translation of the Italian Pittura Metafisica) which