Category: 1.1 Jan

In Week 15 we had to show 3 images of our work for critique by the members of our cohort. I snuck in an extra one as the title page. I don’t think I’ve got this composite idea of thesis plus wallet content or photo from that era working yet, but I still want to… Continue reading Three Images, nearly

State of the art in 1973 I just found this polaroid of a chip I made back in 1973 at GEC Hirst Research Centre in London. I still have some of the chips somewhere. It’s a 16×16 array of Ge-Te chalcogenide glass ‘bits’ that could be used as switches or storage. We were using them… Continue reading Pandora’s Box’s contents

I made a couple of images combining a bit from my MSc thesis (the altered book) with the contents of the wallet or photo taken by the H2 from that time. I used a stiff bristle brush and a bristle brush (in Photoshop) to make the unfinished edges and to give the impression of motion… Continue reading Making Day – Altered Book 3

Most of the contents of this box also dated from the 1970s. Some are from the ‘wallet’ period (75-78) at Brock University in Canada and some overlapped with it. I just had a quick look and will go back and do a more thorough check later. Could this give me a wider slice of time?… Continue reading Making Day -opening Pandora’s Box

I thought I’d make a start on this idea, so I made (in Photoshop) a few backgrounds. Then made a distressed edge Did this with a couple of my thesis pages These are incomplete, but something to ponder and try again. I think I need more colour, they are a bit bland.

Last night I was reading “The Found Object in Textile Art” by Cas Holmes and the section on ‘Altered Books’ (p.80-81) caught my eye. It suggested using a found book, or cheap substitute, and using as a base or substrate for a series of collages. This seemed like a great idea to me. When I… Continue reading Altered book

I mentioned last Thursday that I had taken my ‘found object’, an old wallet, from a box found in the roof space. Beside it was a packet of negatives and one or two prints from the same period. BUT, there were other plastic bags inside this box, and I haven’t opened them, I was so… Continue reading Pandora’s Box

I like to think I’m a smart cookie, but sometimes …. After the student presentations last night I was thinking about the possible themes I’ll be working on. All of them had some sort of relationship with time, and I’d said already that I’d been fascinated with the concepts of time from my early 20s.… Continue reading Father Time

I wanted to make a Pecha-Kucha style presentation but my speech is sloower and slurred since my stroke in 2014, so I took out the 20 second transitions and just winged it. Here is the presentation.