Completing Project 10. I’ve been encouraged to trust my instincts as to direction and I’ve experienced this as very supportive, given my more evolutionary than planned way of working. The meaning of ‘project plan’ only became clear at a recent … Continue reading Brief for Project 10, the final unit of 3.2
So I’ve been decorating our village again and making quite a racket in the process. At least digitally. All of these visual layers are superimposed on photos of houses that are mostly in the same lane and all with the … Continue reading Pepperscoombe Christmas Videos: Site, Audience, Context
Early stage perspective so bear with me here! The Sabre tree lived in my back garden as a tiny but vicious pot plant. Eventually, I moved it to the front and set it free whereupon it blocked the light and … Continue reading Sabre Shrub
This is the second of three local photographs, the first my back garden, this the weirdness of an aurora sky, and the third my front garden featuring what I referred to as my guard plant with its leaves like swords. … Continue reading Rooftop cosmology
After manipulating a photo in PhotoDirector using an abstract template, I’ve moved on to make the shapes in pencil on A1 card. This is the view down the back garden and the figure is my shadow while I was taking … Continue reading Resistance
Project 10 A nomad (or rogue) is a wandering planet; a cosmic entity that was probably once in orbit around a star somewhere in the universe but was somehow dislodged and nudged out into space where it drifts, lifeless, and without direction until it nudges up against something else, if it ever does. This painting imagines one of these lost planets arriving here. Using the same foreground shapes and palette, I’ve reduced the chaos of the scenes that follow in the series although they were painted and posted earlier. Call it a glitch in the time-space continuum. The media include … Continue reading Nomad: arrival
In that old tradition of starting as you mean to go backwards, this is the stage of NEO/ELE approach that comes before the physical destruction but after the first naked eye sighting and imagines the extraction of DNA via gravitational … Continue reading Nomad: extraction
A video made to illustrate the difficulties of applying digital technology in areas where there is little or no signal. It forms part of my Project 10 submission, the other part being a physical painting which I’m hoping to steer … Continue reading You are not connected to the internet
NEO ELE NEO – Near Earth Object. ELE – Extinction Level Event. I know; cheery. There are some 30,000 near-earth objects (Royal Museums, Greenwich https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/near-earth-objects-neos-near-misses#). The last one to hit us was also an ELE and wiped out the dinosaurs. … Continue reading Nomad: deconstruction (*and why we need space travel)
Marshall McLuhan is reputed to have said that ‘the medium is the message’. Whether or not he was being serious or cheekily provocative isn’t entirely clear but it’s certainly been exercising a lot of minds from the 1960s onwards. Is … Continue reading Video art and message
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