I just had my first 1-1 tutorial with dan over the phone and it was really great to talk about my work as of now as I think it has shifted in a lot of ways.
previously my 'plan' for degree show was to just collage out my dream (specifically the lilac-beige one) and do another large one maybe looking at that ending scene with the domestic imagery and garish colours from shutter island (in relation to one of my other dreams and also thinking about the 'dinner table', could think about how dorothea tanning uses the dinner table motif) - and I've already made those two large wooden panels in the workshop, and they're just sitting in the studio now.
I updated dan about what I've kind of been looking at since the lockdown happened, which, when I think about it, doesn't seem to have delivered any concrete 'finished' works at all - I've basically been focusing on my research/research journal and gathering all these seemingly random but also sort of connected readings and imagery, it's all a bit difficult to navigate like a tangled web (like what Diana Taylor said) and I guess my role now is to see how it all comes together/converge and what that speaks to the overall meaning in each contradiction presented.
I told him about my concerns in that and he said something really reassuring which was that the research journal is the work in a way. and it is true that the collage can very much be a finished part of work (like Diana Taylor) He also said that La Jetée is a brilliant film and is actually very relevant to what I'm looking at now. I also talked about how in the interim Zoë suggested that 'live-collage' format for how I can present things - including the blowing up of the image (which also speaks to what Diana Taylor was doing in her series, and hito steyerl's essay in defense of the poor image) - and I guess I'm really trying to think about the collage as a way into this web of thinking - the infinite possibilities of how things can come together and align visually (Diana Taylor does this as well, speaking on the convergence of times, disaster/dystopias and utopias/souvenir) and maybe in a space for the visual proposal - a live collage on the walls, collage within collage I guess you could say.
I also mentioned how I've been looking at Nasa's Voyager/Golden Record, and wanting to do something with those materials as well. Looking to sci-fi and space, gravitating towards those ideas seem quite different to just the nature on earth, I wonder if it can still fit well together. It did, in La Jetée in that taxidermy scene. and it's existential as well. Dan said I can take a look at the film Solaris, which is on my to-watch list. I have a lot of films I want to watch for a gathering of images to hopefully collage, take inspiration from, maybe redraw, and think about the appropriated image. (Diana Taylor talks about always using her archive/collection which I completely relate to, and seeing her using these images, manipulating them in so many different ways, and in layers and layers of transformation e.g. photographing them, digitally printing, screen printing, painting and stitching bits back, leaving them unfinished is really interesting in the fragmenting of images)
Looking at the variation in her work it's inspiring me greatly to use different languages in the collage - as dan said, I have the text (like the Cy Twombly like experiment I did on raw canvas), and drawing (which he looked at the girl drawing on procreate, which can mimic pencils and charcoal etc so well it's scary), as well as the personal and collected imagery. I've also, now, am looking at moving image materials and sound, so this is quite overwhelming on where to go from here. how do I incorporate sound and video and at what point do I do that? do I want to do that? I guess it's best to focus on one thing at a time, and I'm trying my best to do that so I can actually gather 'research' in this other way- through doing things like drawing/quick collaging.
The 'end' goal we're working towards is the new concept of the visual proposal - which seems to have infinite possibilities of what it could be. It doesn't have to be on a gallery wall, but any space. This is where it gets difficult because you could literally do anything, like something from a film or, even the digital space? (imagine I can design a video game space where you look around at works, motion track like) I'm not sure. I'm going to see what sort of works I have and work from that.
previously my 'plan' for degree show was to just collage out my dream (specifically the lilac-beige one) and do another large one maybe looking at that ending scene with the domestic imagery and garish colours from shutter island (in relation to one of my other dreams and also thinking about the 'dinner table', could think about how dorothea tanning uses the dinner table motif) - and I've already made those two large wooden panels in the workshop, and they're just sitting in the studio now.
I updated dan about what I've kind of been looking at since the lockdown happened, which, when I think about it, doesn't seem to have delivered any concrete 'finished' works at all - I've basically been focusing on my research/research journal and gathering all these seemingly random but also sort of connected readings and imagery, it's all a bit difficult to navigate like a tangled web (like what Diana Taylor said) and I guess my role now is to see how it all comes together/converge and what that speaks to the overall meaning in each contradiction presented.
I told him about my concerns in that and he said something really reassuring which was that the research journal is the work in a way. and it is true that the collage can very much be a finished part of work (like Diana Taylor) He also said that La Jetée is a brilliant film and is actually very relevant to what I'm looking at now. I also talked about how in the interim Zoë suggested that 'live-collage' format for how I can present things - including the blowing up of the image (which also speaks to what Diana Taylor was doing in her series, and hito steyerl's essay in defense of the poor image) - and I guess I'm really trying to think about the collage as a way into this web of thinking - the infinite possibilities of how things can come together and align visually (Diana Taylor does this as well, speaking on the convergence of times, disaster/dystopias and utopias/souvenir) and maybe in a space for the visual proposal - a live collage on the walls, collage within collage I guess you could say.
I also mentioned how I've been looking at Nasa's Voyager/Golden Record, and wanting to do something with those materials as well. Looking to sci-fi and space, gravitating towards those ideas seem quite different to just the nature on earth, I wonder if it can still fit well together. It did, in La Jetée in that taxidermy scene. and it's existential as well. Dan said I can take a look at the film Solaris, which is on my to-watch list. I have a lot of films I want to watch for a gathering of images to hopefully collage, take inspiration from, maybe redraw, and think about the appropriated image. (Diana Taylor talks about always using her archive/collection which I completely relate to, and seeing her using these images, manipulating them in so many different ways, and in layers and layers of transformation e.g. photographing them, digitally printing, screen printing, painting and stitching bits back, leaving them unfinished is really interesting in the fragmenting of images)
Looking at the variation in her work it's inspiring me greatly to use different languages in the collage - as dan said, I have the text (like the Cy Twombly like experiment I did on raw canvas), and drawing (which he looked at the girl drawing on procreate, which can mimic pencils and charcoal etc so well it's scary), as well as the personal and collected imagery. I've also, now, am looking at moving image materials and sound, so this is quite overwhelming on where to go from here. how do I incorporate sound and video and at what point do I do that? do I want to do that? I guess it's best to focus on one thing at a time, and I'm trying my best to do that so I can actually gather 'research' in this other way- through doing things like drawing/quick collaging.
The 'end' goal we're working towards is the new concept of the visual proposal - which seems to have infinite possibilities of what it could be. It doesn't have to be on a gallery wall, but any space. This is where it gets difficult because you could literally do anything, like something from a film or, even the digital space? (imagine I can design a video game space where you look around at works, motion track like) I'm not sure. I'm going to see what sort of works I have and work from that.