Reflection: Pretty Little Rows
Its felt strange walking into the empty building of the annex studios.
Having work that exists from last year (L4), and feeling the emptiness of the space as I walk around the annex is quite exciting.
First attempt at exploring the emptiness of the studio space today.
The first thing that I notice is the absence of other students.
Knowing I have 12 cast clay hoods upstairs has intrigued me to bring them down to the seminar room and replace that which is missing. I wasn’t sure what the objective of today was. I started to investigate and traverse the ‘space’, explore the availability of openness and potentiality.
Gallery of various layouts of not only the hoods but also objects to hand within the space. One thing that has revealed itself over the day is the difference between using the room in day light and the properties that the room takes on as the light outside fades as the evening sets in. This lends to a completely different ‘feel’ to the setting and acts as a theatre space almost. This lends a deeper atmosphere to the space i’m finding.
Contrast between a day and night appearance.
How the setting of day and night contrast.
First Part of today where I introduce the slip clay hoods into the space.
Over the course of the degree, I have taken away from seminars my own interpretations of the displays of other artists in their studio spaces.
What I have discovered from today, is there is something deep and essential to the artist and the space they work in.
Development of my ideas come from what I call “accidental moments”.
That occurence taking place when one either witnesses a happening or some other kind of emergent moment that presents itself outside of the expected result. Again, one of the things that hasn’t left me since hearing it, is Professor Patrick Brill’s theory and teaching of the “what would happen if?” This way of thinking about our interactions with things, objects, or objects that have an agency to become things, Is a developmental area of production that I am now starting to rely on within my own process.
Overlaying, via the projector within the room, a strobe effect using YouTube as a source material, or as we learnt in CCS a “Technical Support”.
Fig. 2 Over Laying a film I made earlier in the Autunm term so as to test setting and space. Contrast of objects and environment.
The Grid by Philip Glass. Accompanying the creative process in the studio today. Playing in the background.