Research: works of Tim Knowles

Nightwalk - Valley of Rocks #1

i love the ambiguity and dramatic lighting of this shot

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Artists statement about the tree works

I use apparatuses, mechanisms, or systems beyond my control to introduce chance into the production of my art. The pieces here are from a series produced by trees, most of which are located in the Borrowdale and Buttermere areas of England’s Lake District. I attach artists’ sketching pens to their branches and then place sheets of paper in such a way that the trees’ natural motions—as well as their moments of stillness—are recorded. Like signatures, each drawing reveals something about the different qualities and characteristics of the various trees as they sway in the breeze: the relaxed, fluid line of an oak; the delicate, tentative touch of a larch; a hawthorn’s stiff, slightly neurotic scratches. Process is key to my work, so each Tree Drawing is accompanied by a photograph or video documenting the location and manner of its creation.

full moon series: reflections of full moon on water

2013

Single channel 12 hour HD videoA slowly shifting film made up of 9004 digital pinhole photographs taken consecutively during a walk across Mungo National Park, from its Western border to its Eastern border. The film [the sequence of images constantly cross dissolving one into the next] gives a Turneresque impression of the journey through Mungo's varied landscape of grasslands, dried up lake bed, dunes, Mallee forest, etc.

The landscape in this Australian based video is familiar in it's colours and wildness. I like the camera shake, the dream-like quality.

My response to the work: I love the strong concept behind the work, the use of chance to create the images, but ultimately the artist is choosing which iamges to keep/discard/show. like the chance element to the work, capturing time with traces. THe artist has also started using montage of still photos to make video-work which I'm interested in. Following of from a video project combining stills and short sharp bursts of abstract video footage, I would like to pursue this as a way of combining a number of abstract images to create mood.

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