Explosion Paintings Section Fixed
Thanks to Anish for informing me that the "Explosion Paintings" section of my website was broken. I have now fixed it. See the working version here.
Will you interview me?
It has now been a couple of weeks since I took down the exhibition of my work entitled "People Watching the People Watchers" that was on display in a shop window on East Reach. The dust in my mind has settled and I am now ready to make a video documentary about the whole thing but I need someone to interview me. It must be someone who saw the exhibition and I don't want to know what questions I will be asked. We will just set up a camera and two microphones in a location, get a cup of tea and talk it out, all filmed live in 1 take. I will then edit the interview into a short documentary along with original footage from the project, voyeuristic shots that I took of the public interacting with the installation and also various blogs and scripted notes I took during the 5 weeks.
So, if you are reading this and can help me make the final and most important stage of my project, you know who you are. Get in contact.
Moving out of my studio
My exit from this studio is imminent and I am not planning to rent another place. Concentrating on video work for the foreseeable future this last couple of months will see me making a conceited effort to run down my stock of materials, complete all the unfinished sculptures and prepare them for safe storage and transportation.
After my disasterous attempt at making a 2 part split mould recast this project went into the cupboard for a long time. I now return to work on it. The release agent I had used catastrophically failed, causing the gel coat to bond with the surface. So here it is after about 5 hours of chipping off bits of resin and wet-n-dry'ing it to bring the surface back to a smooth finish. I now plan NOT to recast the torso but instead work directly into it. I shall not give away any more details about this project but I am very excited about it. I am even keeping the eventual title a secret, referring to this as Kate Silverton (working title). The next time you see it this will be finished and hopefully on exhibition.
Revisited my sculpture and found vandalism
When I finished my 1 day commission in Priors Park Wood I always felt there was one more little thing that I would have liked to do to make the piece complete. I wanted to drill peep holes in the stumps that all looked at the 1 tree, about which I built the sculpture. This would reinforce the way the arc of stumps was 'responding' to the solo stump that had escaped felling for some reason.
So, on Monday I grabbed a hand drill and went for a drive, parked up around the corner and was greeted with this...
Someone has crudely cut the word "Art" out from the laminated sign. Interpret this as you will.
I continued my task in hand and drilled the peep holes...
If you study the picture carefully you will see the trunk of the distant tree lined up in the centre hole and that the surrounding holes become increasingly more angled as they are all trained on the same point.
Now I think about this I am convinced that I was inspired to do this by the seemingly eternal influence of my childhood films. In this case Spielberg classic The Goonies; If you would care to remember the map reading scene at the beginning of the adventure.
Shop Window Exhibition Continues
It's the 3rd week of the 5 week exhibition and that means we are half way through. It's rather overwhelming trying to make sense of all the various feedbacks I am getting. From such a wide cross section of the community various different aspects of the project either directly or indirectly related are being discussed and as I record them all on note books, scraps of paper or with the camera I can't yet see how I am going to present it all.