Whats happening in my studio about a week out from hand in...

With the addition of taking photos as a form of documentation rather than as works. Then having them printed out, and through a decision made by the printing guy - I have a new work. A photo printed twice. It has a sequential movement - more of an action than a still frame. With photos I feel there is so much that can be read into them and so much baggage surrounding them which I get nervous about. I talked to Monique about how a photo can start as documentation and then turn into a work that has the ability to sit by itself. 

The picture on the right is provisionally propped against the wall, the painted back to it creates the glow. I am not all that interested in the glow created off the back, but I think with the photograph propped up against the propped up wood - it turns into a set of instructions almost. The pictures are of me engaging with the wood. It shows the viewer what it's been used for and how they could engage with it. Which is an idea that I really like.

These objects I see as physical representations of a gesture. They hold a softness even though they are solid. The middle one was the first and I painted it to look like a giant blob of blue-tack. These started out because I had blobs of clay that had semi dried - so I let them dry and painted them up.

This hanging wood is the result of a failed test. I was trying to get the wood to sit balanced horizontally out from the wall using the tension on the string. It didn't work, but this work had a nice twisting movement when it was trying to find its point of balance - I like that a point of balance was found by the object itself, instead of me balancing it.

After talking to Ian, he noticed that the nail that I have used in this work is semi curved. Something that came about because of my bad hammering skills. But Ian saw the curve and saw the curve of the propped up wood sheet and saw a connection. We started talking about how a small subtle gesture preformed just once can go un-noticed or thought of as a mistake. But a small gesture preformed over and over a few times will attract attention.