feedback and results

Well first off..I have got myself a high first with an overall mark of 77. I got 75 for professional and critical contexts and 77 for creative practise. I am well chuffed and will upload the feedback sheets soon.

anchor points

Are objects the anchor points that connects society through attachment and symbiosis. Is emotional detachment and the throwaway culture integral to the development of technology and reinforces what is considered the uprising of consumerism.

Objects have a life span, a social order and potential shape-shifting qualities. The old adage of one man’s rubbish is another man’s treasure is so true and prevalent in modern culture. Take a used valve that may be found in a garbage can, this broken piece of yesterday’s technology can be elevated from the humble scrap heap to a collector’s appraised gaze. A piece of junk has created interest in it’s viewer and now has altered it’s anchor point towards another perspective through attachment and symbiosis.

Liminal time has governed this reattachment and through this metaphysical subjective state the transgression both historically and socially. Liminality concerns itself with the threshold of or between two different existential planes as in the case of the valve, trash and treasure

The creation of Lucien Fellowes serves as a conduit for my theory of self imposed liminality. I have created a nomenclature to highlight my interest in duality and juxtaposition. This character is on the threshold of reality and is also an imaginary character that I have devised.

He is lost within the dimension that is concerned with time and has links to the third dimension that is space. This is not a science fiction based concept but is founded within physics. The relationship to the opening gambit and to Mr. Fellowes is that he collect such anchor points and re-represents through a confused state of self interest.

As mentioned, I am interested in duality in humanity both mentally and the physical and also in folklore. I have been looking for artistic references for this essay and the name of Ilya Kabakov. Kabakov is a Russian/American artist who works within the conceptual area of art. He uses fictional biographies within his art and he creates installations that evokes various visual cultures.

I find this inspiring and highly advantageous towards my practice as well as the author Chuck Palahniuk. This author wrote books such as Fight Club and Rant. It must be said that these books are less about macho culture but more about the human condition. Liminal time is explained within Rant and Fight Club concerns itself with the duality of persona and insomnia. Insomnia my bring on effects of this threshold of sleep and awakeness.

So, objects hold this power to alter the perception and social order of itself. It can and will transform itself from humble origins towards a position in high esteem.

Songs in A and E

I have just found another favourite album, one that I have ignored for such a long time. I have been a fan from a distance of Spiritualized since Spaceman 3 imploded and I have many of their early material but this album is so pure and life-affirmingly great it is untrue.

The guy wrote the material a few years before his double pneumonia nearly killed him twice and then through recovery, he worked and then released the album. Songs in A and E contains Sweet Talk, Death Take Your Fiddle, the sublime Soul on Fire and personal favourite Baby I'm Just a Fool. There are still the Velvet Undergroundesque tracks such as You Lie You Cheat and the Stonesish track I Gotta Fire but these just augment the Gospel and horns of a particularly good record.

It stands in stead with Electric mainline and Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating in Space but leaves the drones and electronic experiments of it. The songs do have a good run through and feels very personal and resonates with a joy of life. I don't know if my brush with death through heart failure and his brush with it gives me a certain connection with the material both lyrically and musically but I feel very emotional with every hearing. This is one of my favourite albums of all time and may just have booted one of it's competitors from a position in my top ten.

self-portrait project

Two Polaroids showing the Genesis of my project.


This is pobably the style I will go with.

As we have the Free For Arts Festival 2011 coming in October and just the summer in between, I have decided to start the project early. We have the dissertation through the summer months to research and hopefully start so I 'll be busy with reading etc.. So this project will be a very personal one and the outcome will show the vulnerability of possessions. I will try to highlight the utility and final downfall of our most used piece of clothing.

Our shoes hold our body and weight and contain our excretions through sweat and dead skin and are the most physically attuned item of our attire. I want to highlight that the shoes are duplicators of organic life both in birth life and death. Therefore they are applicable to our own exsistence, a portrait of who we are.

I would like to photograph a variety of portrait from different people but in my heart, I'd want to do my own self-portraits. I have tried to find some research material for this project but haven't found that many and may need to divulge further. I did start a similar project last year using Polaroids and they may be used as back-up material. I have begun to take more Polaroids though.

mcr art-crawl

This is the word touch using squared tiles that I have found in a skip. This shows the spatial relationships between each piece and how the pieces may lie,


This is the working model for my installation piece for the MCR Art-Crawl

So after being late for the submission deadline for MCR Art-Crawl..I received a letter on my door-mat saying that I have been accepted and that I am now part of the 'not part of' art team.

The work that I started in January will be the exhibit and that is the concrete blocks spelling out the word TOUCH in squared Braille. I am hoping that I'll be in some disued building or factory and now have to start forming and casting my cement blocks for the event. I think I'll need about 24 of them..

failings in presentation

So I failed bigtime in the presentation on Thursday. The files that I had on both my USB and Cd-Rom would play and the DVD that I so diligently worked on for at least six months didn't play. Basically, I had to give an art presentation blind, so to speak.

The presentation that I wanted to give was the Lucien Fellowes and this was going to be a wound-up of what the whole ethos were. I was going to talk about the inception, the imagery, the anchor points and the science but had to leave that in the cold. What I had then was my five minute DVD (one of the three that I wanted to play) that I had to complete to show my creative/ networking and contextual practise for the whole year.

I played the DVD and interjected at several places and then waffled about Lucien for a few minutes and then played a looped film that I have completed with the soundtrack being non exsistent. I then talked about several networking opportunties that I was involved in. This was a presentation that lacked the coherence that I planned. I planned the talk for a while but when it came to the crunch, technology and the waft of hype that I gave myself..let me down...as what Chuck D always says..'don't believe the hype'.

My saving grace if there was one were the q&a at the end of the spectacle. I answered the questions to the best of my abilities and had the intellectual backing to solidify my responses. The payback is tomorrow and thats when I found out if I have dunked and dived or saved myself.

new collage

The first is TOOTH and is the genesis of my new sculpture whilst THEY MEAN US is a sideline and is meant to be a fun piece of throwaway collage.