Traces

Robert /Smithson Wrote an article on the journey he made that was inspired by something he read. The aim to this project was to make us look at things in a different way. Sean Lynch showed us something in the city which he believed in and it was fascinating to learn about how he saw things. We had to come up with a project surrounding these two situations and use either the dark room or the digital prints.

I decided to use the dark room because I wanted to use it as a learning experience. By doing this I learned a lot about my skills and about the accuracy of developing both the film and images that I didn't know before. The frustrating practice is a great experience, and even though I say it frustrates me I absolutely love it because you have to put in so much thought and accuracy compared to the digital camera.

I ideas were all over the place but I combined them in some way as the connected and were based all around the same place. I looked at a river walk and found really interesting things as I did. This made me want to look at the traces of people and how they eave things behind. I found things like buggy's in the rive and crosses on the ground. These interested me because there is some kind of a history in each item I was looking at.

My final 8 pieces are all based by me photographing the construction of an image by other people. I didn't move and of the object or subject, I moved myself to get the images I wanted.

Oliver Boberg

German artist Oliver Boberg is a photography and video artist that works with creating and recalling memories.
His project 'Slums' s of extra interest to me at the moment because i am working on the traces of people and whats better to look at an artist who studies how some people lived and in hat the lives. As you can see in the images iv posted here you can see his interest through out the depth of the lifestyle of these people in there home lives.

George Rousse

George Rousse did a fantastic project in Durham for an art residency. The public made it possible with there volunteer work and contributions. 11coulorful mind blowing and eye blending pieces and constructed in historical buildings. his final images show what the piece would be like from a certain angle in the room. they show an illusion of colour blending in the rooms. The use of space and colour was a real interesting part of the images and made them more interesting to keep reading.

Richard Wentworth

London based artist Robert Wentworth  was a major focus in my traces project. The British Sculpture artist studied the notion of objects from day to day experiences. He transforms and manipulates everyday objects that e finds through the medium of photography. In this project 'Making do and Getting By' is based on his finding of these objects. I really find this project interesting as you do see the objects in a whole new light. He uses his photography skills as a new way of seeing which I find extremely interesting as it something I'm extremely interested in within the media of photography.

 In these two examples of images from this project iv mentioned, are the examples I'v shown here on the right. I find these quite humorous but extremely interesting at the same time. I love they are clearly found objects. The first image is one of my favorites from the entire exhibition as it high lights the council in a new light. how the spend money for something that's already there. this is an example of how he makes things seen differently threw the camera lens.

The second im age is a DIY something we don't know but can let or minds run on many possible ideas from kids using it with skate boards or bikes to Adults using it with maybe cars or a wheel barrow.

Over all Richard Wentwork is a artist im going to make myself very familiar with and im going to follow his work.

Gerard Byrne

Gerard Byrne is a visual artist that we were told to learn about. He works in the mediums of photography, film and video.
His work is influenced by literature and theatre that represent the history of cultural forms through society. His Photography is usually based over the past few years threw historical site projects, and his film making is where he reconstructs historical conversations from popular magazines from 1960's - 80's.

He can be found on many different museum and art gallery site such as:

http://www.gerardbyrne.com/ - his own site that can bring you to his works and projects in other art gallery sites, such as : www.greenonredgallery.com and www.lissongallery.com

These are some images and an image of a film installation i found on the Lisson Gallery website. here you can see how he uses typical and popular arguments and topics of the 1960's-80's.

Sharon Lockhart

Sharon Lockhart is a Massachusetts born film and instalation artist.

Lockhart's video Podworka is based in Poland focusing on the kids that live in the court yards of Lodz.
These children live in the apartment blocks near the old abandoned house, but these houses are the only playground for the children. The positive thing about this is it keeps the children so where safe, away from traffic and all the city's business. Its fascination to look at this 'playground' and compare it to that of an American playground, and watch how these children use the storage units and metal armatures become Jungle Gyms, sandboxes and soccer fields in the children's eyes.

http://www.lockhartstudio.com/index.php?/films/podworka/ this is the link for the video piece that I was looking at and described above. I really enjoyed looking at the video as something seems to be happening at all times in it. The children seem to follow each other in and out of the frame. Its interesting how the frame doesn't change and how the real subjects - the children- enter and exit it.

Baby Kittens

Lovely little kittens that my friends cat had. had to share them with the world. Their just the most adorable things ever!