As described in my proposal, I identified five project activities to shape my work in March and April.
Project activity
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March
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April
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Creating inventory of existing photographs
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Analysing existing photographs
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Making new photographs
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Playing with new photographs
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Researching
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Creating inventory and analysing existing photographs
The process I have engaged in is reflected in my digital diary. And this is what I’ve done!
In my first post I explain how my thinking about edge was initiated by Sean Scully’s paintings and photographs. Post 1 Thinking: Edge
My first step was to create a new project ‘Edge’. I then started to work through my archive selecting photographs that I thought said something about ‘edge’. The first post includes photographs from this initial work.
At this stage I created three collection sets:
· Built environment
· Sand
· Water.
I have since added a fourth set:
· Billboard.
Making and playing with old and new photographs
Working with photographs from my archive and newly made photographs I have embarked on a journey of experimentation initiated by two up-close photographs of posters on billboards.
As I work I am developing a deeper understanding about practice-led research and development. I see it as a continual process of circling:
Photographic exploration leads to…
New questions and ideas which lead to…
Research which leads to…
A new exploration lead by a technical idea or key image…
New questions and ideas which lead to…
Research which leads to…
This process is supported enormously be the opportunity to show and analyse my photographs with lecturers, colleagues, guests and now my international mentor. I also learn a huge amount by seeing and talking about other people’s work.
This is an overview of my practice over the last five or six weeks.
Thinking/writing
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Towards a folio
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Reading
A = Artistic inspiration
W= Writing about photography
T= Technical
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Idea: Photographing the built environment – walls in North Melbourne and constructed walls at WomAdelaide .
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Set 1: Photographs of found abstractions in the built environment
Post 7 Folio: A visual starting point
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A: Sean Scully,
Post 2 Inspiration: Sean Scully
W: Marc O'Sullivan, Beate Reifenschein & Sean Scully, Sean ScullyFigure/Abstract
Post 3 Reading: About photography
W: Stephen Shore, The Nature of Photographs
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Idea: Not so specific
Technique: Double-printing from archive
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Set 2: Images of built environment double printed
Post 8 Folio: Not so specific
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A: Harry Callahan
Post 9 Inspiration: Harry Callahan
W: Lyle Rexer, The Edge of Vision
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Key image: detail of posters
Idea: New photographs of posters & billboards suitable for using with the double-printing technique
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Set 3: Double-printed photographs of poster detail
Post 11 Folio exploring abstraction
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A:
W: Henry Geldzahler,Pop Art 1955-70
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Idea: 2D to 3D
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Set 4: Two models:
- pop-up
- raised levels created by cut-outs
Post 13 Folio: from 2D to 3D
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A: Exhibition: Cut! Paper Play
Post 10 Inspiration: Cut Paper play in contemporary photography
A: Gilles Néret, Henri Matisse Cut-outs
A: Joan Miró 1956-1983 Feeling, Emotion, Gesture
T: Paul Jackson, Cut and Fold Techniques for Pop-up Designs
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Idea: revealing movement/process
Post 12 Thinking: Revealing process
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Set 5 Double-printed images with a constrained group of photographs
Post 14: Folio: revealing process
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W: Susan Bright, Art Photography Now
A: Burhan Dogançay Works on Paper 1950-2000
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Idea: B&W
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Set 6: Double-printed images in b&w
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W: Dora Vallier, Abstract Art
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Idea: Printing transparencies
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Set 7: Using transparencies to create a multi-layered effect
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W: Charlotte Cotton, Photography is Magic
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I prepared a PowerPoint presentation based on this information, but I don't think my presentation really reflected this chart very well because in the classroom it wasn't possible to incorporate the hyperlinks to the blog as I had done on my home computer. Following the presentation, I made some notes based on the verbal feedback and conversation. I will receive written feedback at a later date.
We talked about:
· apertures and seeing through
· Jacques Villeglé and his decollage/collage created with ripped or lacerated posters (https://www.widewalls.ch/artist/jacques-villegle/;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Villeglé)
· Andrea Grützner (http://www.andreagruetzner.de; https://photoworks.org.uk/instagram-takeover-andrea-grutzner/#close-no) use of coloured gels and light. She did a residency at RMIT earlier this year and some of his work is still there
· Approachin work as a painter for example Deiter Roth Picadillies (https://www.google.com/search?q=dieter+roth+piccadillies+series&client=safari&rls=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwit6aWv7M_aAhVIa7wKHd2cCEYQsAQILQ&biw=1245&bih=1032)
· Cut-outs like Matisse and Gordon ???
· Why posters?
· Victor Bergin and Bringing Back the aura’
· Photographing over and over (Sophie ??? with found photographs)
· Shifting from series and books to object
· Peeling back the object using multiple materials folder over each other.
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