Pictures from my MA exhibition
These pictures show two sculptural works in my MA show - each one also had a film of itself, elsewhere in the space.
Papier Maché Landscape
Leith Hill Tickets
Colour and Black and White
Edgar Allen Poe...
"These trifles are collected and republished chiefly with a view to their redemption from the many improvements to which they have been subjected while going at random "the rounds of the press." I am naturally anxious that what I have written should circulate as I wrote it, if it circulate at all. In defence of my own taste, nevertheless, it is incumbent upon me to say that I think nothing in this volume of much value to the public, or very creditable to myself. Events not to be controlled have prevented me from making, at any time, any serious effort in what, under happier curcumstances, would have been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence; they must not - they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations of mankind."
Diagrams of Paper Sizes
A Piece Of Wire
In searching the streets for bits of metal, I've started to come accross lengths of wire that have been flattened into curious shapes. If I hadn't been collecting metal, and if I'd had a camera with me, I might have photographed the metal there and then.
http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Brassai
http://expositions.bnf.fr/portraits/grand/067.htm
Found Metal Mobile Under Construction
Le Sang d'un Poete
Close Up
These are reversal images of a wooden frame I built, which holds two sheets of glass, between which are suspended wooden letters that spell out 'Close Up'. The left hand image shows the letters in the frame (and also a green ruler which I placed on the frame for a moment to make it easier to ajust the focus, and then forgot to remove when I took the picture). The other two images are a stereo pair; the slight difference between them should make a three-dimensional stereogram. The next part of the process is to build another frame to hold the images, a viewing-frame. As ever, I will post an image of that as and when it is built.
Phillips Park, East Manchester
I recently went on a bike ride, ending up in Phillips Park, where I'd never been before. It is attached to an old cemetery. As I pushed my bike around it, I was the only person there, in a vast space of grass and gravestones. There is an amazing, quite ruined chapel there too, that has a bronze plaque commemorating the Boer War set into one of its walls. The rafters of the church are visible from outside, and have plants growing through them, and birds nesting. I'll endeavor to take some photos there next week. The park is the space just to the bottom-right of this photocopy of a map...
there's a picture of the park here: http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ewm/ic3/77.html
Bicycle Wheel Label
Tunnock's Caramel Wrapper
What an amazing wrapper. I'm not sure how long this design has been in use, but probably since the heyday of Peter Blake and Jasper Johns. In case it's not too visible on the scan, and you've never eaten a Tunnock's Milk Chocolate Coated Caramel Wafer Buscuit ("more than 4,000,000 of these biscuits made and sold every week"), and I recommend you do, the wrapper is made of metallic-coated paper. The Tunnocks website (www.tunnock.co.uk) is really beautiful.
La Malediction des Sept Boules Vertes!
External Tape
Coffee rings on an envelope
Found bits of metal
Polavision instruction manual
In a car-boot-sale I bought a Polavision movie camera - the 8mm instant movie format made by Polaroid. This is its instruction manual, featuring a brilliant drawing of the strange double lamp that fits onto the top of the camera. I haven't used the camera yet, although there was an unused Polavision cartridge that came with it. I would appreciate any information about recent users of out-of-date Polavision filmstock...
I think the drawing is very much in the style of the early XIII comics. There is a mysterious interactive website made by Dargaud about the comic: www.treize.com
The Constructivist Marble Run in action
One of the two display cabinets in the 'Evidence' exhibition
This is the right-hand of the two display cabinets in the aforementioned 'Evidence' exhibition. Once again, a part of my 'Constructivist Marble Run' track suspended in midair (by a rather visible piece of invisible thread)
Some images of the exhibition, and the text which describes our various works, is on the Manchester Metropolitan University's website. The address for this is:
www.holdengallery.mmu.ac.uk
Constructivist Marble Run Track Set
Evidence: exhibition opening this week.
This exhibition, which opens this tuesday (the 13th) shows the work of my classmates and I; in some traditional museum display cabinets. The notion of Evidence is important both in the Edmund Husserl and the Arthur Conan Doyle senses! Some of the visual influence for the displays come from Josef Sudek's 'Labyrinth' photographs. There is a fascinating essay about Sudek and surrealism here:
www.surrealismcentre.ac.uk/publications/ papers/journal3/acrobat_files/Lahoda_article.pdf
(www.surrealismcentre.ac.uk)
I will post some images of the cabinets forthwith.
Pages 230 and 231 of the 1963 Heineman edition of 'Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour, an Introduction', by J. D. Salinger. Buddy glass introduces the game of Stoopball, in which the player throws a ball against a wall, with the hope of it bouncing across the street to hit another building's wall, and then touch the ground without being caught by an opposing player. Needless to say, Seymour Glass is a wonderfully talented player.
Parquet Floor
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