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.