Blog
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Thatcher vandalism, Grantham, March 2024
“It sits on a 10ft (3m) high plinth under CCTV surveillance to minimise the risk of vandalism.” -
Resin or glass pillow video installation idea
I like the idea of continuing to mess with the visual script of a textile pillow, converting it to glass. It’s fragile and transparent which echo’s other aspects that I want to focus on.It also lends itself to the possibility of showing work through it. My initial thoughts are to explore video work that could be played through the base of the pillow. I have looked into the possibilities of making such a piece using the colleges equipment and it is possible but it would be a lengthy and expensive process. This will likely be prohibitive. If so I can always revise this idea.https://www.resinobsession.com/forums/topic/creating-resin-pillows/
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Plaster pillows
I am pleased with these tests.They are simple but effective and reinforce my idea that translating something floppy into something unyielding is really interesting.I would like to expand on this idea and scale them up, exploring concrete as a medium to double down on the narrative flip; it is cold, utilitarian and urban by nature and so traditionally lacks all connotations with softness and warmth.
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Pillow line drawings: to be continued…
I think these are effective and would like to make more.They feel cartographical. As if you really can read their landscape, and so learn something about the person that interacted with them.This is about capturing the ephemeral. Photographing my pillows each morning, reducing these to line drawings and then working with them in composition. It works and this concept interests me so much that I definitely want to pushed forward with it at a later point.
I also want to write this so it really sinks in to my subconscious as an artist; when I first placed the acetate pieces on this Perspex board, instinctively, that was when they were in the best composition. It just worked perfectly. I spent hours trying to contrive a better relationship with them all on that surface and couldn’t. I need to trust my ability to just make. To put myself on that board with those pillows, without over thinking it.I ran out of energy and resource to really explore and realise this section of the installation in a way that matched the production value of the pieces already included. Playing with scale, palette and composition would elevate them.To be continued… -
Stitching with human hair test
Much prefer this to the lettering. It’s visceral and complicated and messy and a bit dirty.|Will carry on pushing it.
