Sculpture/Casting
Wallet and/or H2 Camera
I had a break out room from the Zoom meeting with Blair. I wasn’t very sure what his project entailed. I’d thought it was about erosion of concrete buildings. I now think it’s more about casting or moulding structures using recycled materials to form the structures fabricated. (reformat). When we were talking about casting and moulding, I thought of the little cats using a rubber or latex mould I made when I was a child. I mentioned this to Blair and he suggested the moulded wallet in the beach scenario somehow – also a possibility. Would it be possible to do something similar for the wallet or the beach projects? Or of my camera that I’d bought exactly during the period covered by the wallet? Could I make a contrast between the images captured by the camera and the artifacts from the wallet? Or even make the photos of the wallet etc. with the H2 (o rmaybe a better camera from that period?) camera from that time? I sort of like that idea!
Dali/Proust
Dali came up too, I think in the second break out room with Blair. I began to think of a sculpture, like the melted clocks, but as a slice, since the wallet could represent a slice of time. Maybe that’s too realistic surrealistic?
I don’t know about this idea, it might be a bit crap, but it excites me to be in a process that I don’t where it will lead.
The Proust idea is one I had last year. I started to rough it out for a photography club talk, but eventually went in another direction. It’s the same sort of thing as my ‘Wallet’ theme. I’d bought my first serious camera, a secondhand Pentax H2, in the same time period as the wallet. It’s an analogy with Proust’s tasting of madelaines, how they evoked a time period so clearly, and using this camera, or just looking at it, does the same for me.
Another new word for me :- ideation
With ideating we don’t know the outcome and with manufacturing we do (I think that’s the difference!)
Where is my studio?
Good question! It depends what I’m doing. If I’m making my photographic images, it’s the beach or the woods. Or at home for the wallet or the camera images. I do the editing at home on the computer. I’m quite proficient at Photoshop, so I’d be technically able to make simple and complex images, the complex images could be digital composites or collages. I’d like to try physical collages too, but I think that could come later as I could make quick tests/trials digitally.
If it’s writing, my studio can be anywhere, at home, on the train, in a noisy bar.
For ceramics, I don’t have that possibility at home, so I would do it at a couple of arts studios I know and have used before. I’ve already discussed it with the owners. I must find out about mould-making.
