Wave exhibition
Wave exhibition
I have submitted work for the Wave show organised through Camberwell College of Art. The work for this show was to be A2 format. This created a slight problem for me as I wanted to use my new 100 metres work which by its origonal design was meant to be 100 1x 100 cm strips joined together, resulting in a 1 x 1 metre composite photographic image (see Sunday, April 02, 2006 blog). I tried to think of ways to re-negotiate the work and was thinking of folding the 1 meter photographic print into various A2 shapes like an A2 cube, but all the solutions I came up with seemed to be forcing the work into a compromised form just for the sake of conforming to the format of the exhibition. Then I started to think of how important maps have been to the making of my work, and my experience of the landscapes that I have traveled through. I started to think of the different scales of map, 1:25000, 1:50000 and so on, and the adjustment in perception that takes place as you view various different scaled maps in quick succession. I started to get drawn to the idea of scaling down my 100 metre image into an A2, and to place text at the bottom referencing the location and new scale (to the origonal work) of the 100metre strip that I had “Photographically surveyed”. This had the effect of grounding the work much more in a sense of location, which appealed to me as the show is to have its second venue in Korea and needed a stronger way to communicate an idea of place. This act of having to reconsider the work enabled me to approach it from a different angle and I feel has made it stronger, as no matter where else I show it I will now include the new text.
100 metres.
The series of prints entitled 100m are semi abstract photographic squares. Each square is made up of 100 x 1cm x 100cm linear photographic images, laid in thin strips beside one another. Each discrete 1cm x 100cm section is a direct digital photograph of a 1m section of Northern Irish/Irish border, each work being a representation of a continuous 100m line of that border. These composite photographs are captured at 1:1 scale, reminiscent of the Boyle Family’s ongoing series of works entitled Journey to the Surface of the Earth, in which they democratically select a location by throwing darts at a map, then represent it as accurately as possible and on the same scale. When viewed from a distance my 100m works appear as abstract squares. As you approach the fact that they are made up of strips of images becomes more apparent, and when viewed up close it is possible to see the detail of the photographed landscape. They refer to scanning lines, of sampling and surveying landscapes, and to surveillance. I have chosen to present them in a group, as I think their richness emerges through multiples.
I have submitted work for the Wave show organised through Camberwell College of Art. The work for this show was to be A2 format. This created a slight problem for me as I wanted to use my new 100 metres work which by its origonal design was meant to be 100 1x 100 cm strips joined together, resulting in a 1 x 1 metre composite photographic image (see Sunday, April 02, 2006 blog). I tried to think of ways to re-negotiate the work and was thinking of folding the 1 meter photographic print into various A2 shapes like an A2 cube, but all the solutions I came up with seemed to be forcing the work into a compromised form just for the sake of conforming to the format of the exhibition. Then I started to think of how important maps have been to the making of my work, and my experience of the landscapes that I have traveled through. I started to think of the different scales of map, 1:25000, 1:50000 and so on, and the adjustment in perception that takes place as you view various different scaled maps in quick succession. I started to get drawn to the idea of scaling down my 100 metre image into an A2, and to place text at the bottom referencing the location and new scale (to the origonal work) of the 100metre strip that I had “Photographically surveyed”. This had the effect of grounding the work much more in a sense of location, which appealed to me as the show is to have its second venue in Korea and needed a stronger way to communicate an idea of place. This act of having to reconsider the work enabled me to approach it from a different angle and I feel has made it stronger, as no matter where else I show it I will now include the new text.
100 metres.
The series of prints entitled 100m are semi abstract photographic squares. Each square is made up of 100 x 1cm x 100cm linear photographic images, laid in thin strips beside one another. Each discrete 1cm x 100cm section is a direct digital photograph of a 1m section of Northern Irish/Irish border, each work being a representation of a continuous 100m line of that border. These composite photographs are captured at 1:1 scale, reminiscent of the Boyle Family’s ongoing series of works entitled Journey to the Surface of the Earth, in which they democratically select a location by throwing darts at a map, then represent it as accurately as possible and on the same scale. When viewed from a distance my 100m works appear as abstract squares. As you approach the fact that they are made up of strips of images becomes more apparent, and when viewed up close it is possible to see the detail of the photographed landscape. They refer to scanning lines, of sampling and surveying landscapes, and to surveillance. I have chosen to present them in a group, as I think their richness emerges through multiples.
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