drawing around shadows in my building

I walked past these shadows every day, its the reflection from the light on the stairs, as it shines through the wrought iron railings. I thought the way the shadow climbs each step was interesting, and wanted to draw around it to see what it looked like flattened out.

Arrived in Budapest

This obscure object/organism is actually a macro image of an extinguished candle wick. I burned a candle and when i blew it out, this was the shape it was left as. I thought it was the most interesting little thing, that something that you don't normally think of as interesting can just magically be so beautiful. Without any human control. It was just chance/ mystery/magic that decided it would burn into this wonderful shape. This unexplained phenomena was the very small beginning of my inspiration while in Budapest.

'Free Breakfast 03/10/10'

chosen site

installed image

After Walid Raad

At the Walid Raad exhibition at Whitechapel there were a series of blue monochrone photographs that were found in rubble in Lebanon. Alongside was an explanation saying that when they sent to the laboratory for testing, it was discovered that they were actually pictures of men and women who had died.

"A series of monochrome blue photographs, the negatives for which were found under the rubble of war-ravaged Beirut, hide the images of anonymous men and women found dead in the Mediterranean." from the Whitechapel website

I was inspired by the use of the scale in these photos, the blue photos were massive and the photos of the men and women underneath were about 100 times smaller. I've done the same thing here with my photos of the dust from the Gorbals demolition, and with a smaller photo of the demolition site. On second thought I should've used a photo of the two towers at Norfolk Court before one was demolished. I think the scale and clinical style creates a cynical and complex relationship between the two photos in each image.

cast-offs

Here are images made from the non-space cut out above the dust in the photographs I took of the floor within the installation with the table and wallpaper. Due to the bad printing quality, the photos came out very blue, but when I cut off the top of the photos, the blues created a new, calmer aesthetic, but fro the same photo. I would like to investigate these more, maybe using inks and collage.

scenes from untitled

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Cedric Price Public Art Project

As part of a cross-school collaborative project, this piece of public art/performance is one of the most important pieces of work I've been a part of in my time at art school. It engages socially, appreciates different parts of the city, and shows that small and inexpensive acts can improve an area, if only for a week in the school holidays.

Brief: actively and critically engage with the city and its’ population using methods you devise. Question access and ownership, rights and responsibilities. Identify a public space and develop an intervention to activate it.

Site where high rise flats at Norfolk Court were recently demolished.

We noticed the paradox between the three stages of building present; the standing high rise flats, the pile of rubble left by the demolition and the vacant area where two high rises once stood. The dust left by the demolition covered the area in a grey smog, negatively affecting the community. We decided to focus on the effects of the dust which was such a prominent issue at the time.

We wanted to create something with the people in the community, rather than impose our ideas on them.

Main Goals:

• Focus on impact of Dust
• Focus on change, evolution, destruction
• Interact with the community
• Create something with the community rather than impose ideas on them
• Evoke emotion and memory
• Reverse dust’s negative impact
• Installation should be impermanent
• Use color to brighten the area

Children from Norfolk Court helped us decorate the playground.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVWxP-0aS6o

We presented the Cedric Price Project at Strathclyde University.

'Let's Knit Together': Performance

Performance as part of COMMON PLATFORM, Group Exhibiton, 21st May 2010, SWG3.

Props = Computer chair, yarn (twine), size 7.5 knitting needles, leather gloves.

Place computer chair 5-10 metres away from a pillar twine can be securely tied to. Tie twine to pillar and unravel to computer chair (leaving enough to cast on and begin comfortably) and cut. Cast on 10 stitches using end of twine, sit down on chair with feet off the floor, and start knitting. As knitting continues and becomes tenser and gradually more difficult, the piece of knitting gets larger, while the knitter and the chair get closer to the pillar (wall).

Images from book of collages