Space Change

Due to the Walls not being the right um...size i have had to change the plane that is detailed in the below post. So i have modified the plan and turned it into a kind of dual wall/image cubicle. It will have a restricted entry corridor so it is hard to be outside and viewing the work. This means that you have to come all the way into the space to see the images and thus you end up obscuring the light...


Cubby-hole set up


My Obsession with Powerlines:
This project has morphed out of lots of other projects i have been working on so far this year. The overall idea i have been researching is the idea of truth and reality within the photographic image. The drawings i started doing using the projection began as a way to mess with this assurance of the photo as reality. They were also a rejection from doing all of my work, all of my image manipulation in photoshop. I found i could photoshop on the walls, mixing multiple images together and overlaying them...but in real life, so to speak.

Through this process i again started to play with causing discomfort in the viewer, and my final set up is a reflection of this frustration and discomfort i am trying to create. This is also why i have chosen to flip one of the images. As with the video works of Shaun Gladwell this has quite a different effect. The dislocation with the "real image" next to it and the interaction of the lines between the two causes further visual disruption has and toys with the notion of reality and disruption in the image.

The drawing process got me interested in large man-made structures, mechanical things that were complex to look at yet easy(ish) to draw using the projections. Powerlines, to me, are one of the most visually ignored objects in the suburban landscape. They are also literally a power structure, they transmit and carry power for our homes and offices. I really enjoy the visual aesthetic of these massive pylons, especially when rendered as hand drawings. Distorting such an image of power is interesting for me.

Video/Projector/Light/Drawings Presenting

So... i have spent the last two weeks sanding and painting (and sanding again) a couple of walls in the new studio space. This was in an attempt to make some of the walls into a nice smooth surface to do my drawings onto. After i did a trail run on one of the already painted walls it destroyed 5 pens because the surface was so rough so i thought it would be a good idea to prepare my own surface. It turned out to be VERY time consuming.

I have been really enjoying this process of drawing and using photos to create a combination of drawn and photographic works. I really like the way that the image reveals the photograph when the light is obscured by something, and playing with the accuracy of the drawings hidden under the projections.

WORKING DRAWINGS:
So this is a drawing of what i initially wanted to create for presentation...


This is the second diagram of the set up i wanted initially:

third diagram:

The diagonals are the path of people moving through the projectors beams.

I wanted to create a space where people who moved into the space would obscure the light from the projectors and thus reveal the drawings underneath. This also creates quite an uncomfortable feeling as you always try and get out of the way of the light/feel bad about obscuring it.
When i talked to Rachel about these drawings we discussed the frustration that is created when you cannot see all of the image at once as well as blocking the light. This made me think about having the drawings only partially finished, for example the power lines not all there, not totally drawn in. This would only be revealed once the projected image is obscured or blocked.

So there becomes a double frustration - you cannot see all of the projected image (if there are a few peopl in the space) yet when you block out all of the projection the drawing hidden underneth is not totally finished, and in fact varies in its faithfulness to the lines of the projection...

End of Semester...Projection Working Drawings

One of my last drawings, direct onto the wall. Will keep as an example for the presentation. This was the one that destroyed so many pens and lead to the 2 weeks of sanding and painting.