Exhibtion: James Turrell

Project 3: work in progress

stills from Project 3

i think i've always been interested in shadows and subtle change in lights but these photos may have been something I would have taken in the past but they now more obviously reference the work of Uta Barth. She says the camera helped her see, it draws her attention to the visible elements around her. The process of taking a photo makes them more visible to her. 

My work involves a sense of what I'm intrigued and drawn to and the spontaneous capturing of that, instantly deciding with digital if I've captured what I want. The possibilities of instand images enable me to take a photo again. I rarely want to edit the photos apart from basic exposures or contrast, the composition doesn't get messed with as that's what has drawn my eye to start with. My eyes frame the world and the camera captures it, making real the way that I see things. It exists outside my mind then and no-one can question my experience or tell me again that it didn't really happen like that...

light works

researching contemporary video artists for project 1.



Relating to my murmurations project, I'm stuck but thinking ahead to projections. I'll be limited by space, equipment, plugs and sockets. From the beginning I've been relating to being physically present at the birds moving before bed, and my own bedtime rituals. Ruminating on the beauty of the flocks in flight, even though it's a defensive co-ordinated movement in action to evade predators. Safety in numbers. How at the moment, for me, changing lodgers in my flat, inevitably challenges my sense of space, safety and calm, although I'm not alone. Safety for me, is not in numbers.


Projecting onto moving fabrics ?bedsheets/toile/muslin/mosquito bednets. Or onto painted hanging glass to mimic looking out a window. Still contemplating the size of the projected image. But yet again, all these ideas will be restricted by equipment.

Researching into people's existing works and looking for current video art exhibitions has been intriguing but often of limited use due to the on-line viewing restrictions of artists moving image work.

Pattern of similarities to works that are appealing for their gentle thoughtfulness and use of sculputural elements either in the projection or on how a projected surface plays with sculptural forms.

As like lots of research, the library has become a useful trigger for research. Inadvertently stumbling onto a book called the 'Paradoxical Object' bought me to the work of Susan Collins.

The book's wordy art theory opaqueness is a real turn off, so thank goodness for some of the stills and some of the more concise accessible descriptions of the works that have made me look into artists more.

I was drawn to 2 peoples work most in the 

artist: SUSAN COLLINS





















artist's website: SUSAN COLLINS

works with light

moving images project for FdA Fine Art
the brief:
to create a video using powerpoint, still abstract/figurative images and 3 videos
Using iphone for recording images

Interested in conveying warmth/familiarity/security of familiar lighting eg orange but editing stills/movies in an uneasy sequence,that stop starts.
Strobe effect on video below...! Close-up of digital projector forming abstract repeatedlights