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
