Thursday 3 September 2015
Sunday 23 August 2015
Sunday 5 July 2015
Natural Land Sculpture
When working on the 'Aleatoric Country Walks', I discovered many pathways, that would be there one day and reclaimed by nature the next.
Today on my walks I decided to capture a few.
They reminded me of Richard Longs Land Sculptures.
I felt they had a story of their own. Who had walked this way? Why had they passed through these meadows? where were they going and why? the questions are endless and yet tomorrow they will not be there. The meadow will reclaim them.....
In The Dock - Chatham
Work at Chatham
The opening evening at Chatham - It was great to see my work in an environment that had space. To be able to walk around the sculpture and see it from all angles, that was how it was intended. Thank you to everyone that came to the private view.
Sunday 21 June 2015
Link to Map Route and Book
The Route taken for Aleatoric Country Walks
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zjOse8tEhUXw.kHkC4YlpSmg4
A book was made to accompany the work
http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/6276936-aleatoric-country-walk
Hope you enjoy the journey and remember to open your eyes whilst out walking.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zjOse8tEhUXw.kHkC4YlpSmg4
A book was made to accompany the work
http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/6276936-aleatoric-country-walk
Hope you enjoy the journey and remember to open your eyes whilst out walking.
Images of Aleatoric Country Walk - Sculpture/Installation and Exhibition Dates
Preparing Aleatoric Country Walks Sculpture
I had decided to display the images on
plinths, elevating the image to its real size in the real world. The 24 plinths
would be placed as the images had been taken in a 6 x 4 sculpture. Therefore
the preparation of the plinths was as important as the images.
Many Thanks to Vicky Paine, (a good friend of many years) for making the plinths to order. And A big big thank you to my studio buddy Peps and Alan my partner for all your hard work in the painting, sanding, filling etc. Much much appreciated it would have took me weeks without your help. Dinner on me.....
Once the plinths were ready it all started to come together.
Many Thanks to Vicky Paine, (a good friend of many years) for making the plinths to order. And A big big thank you to my studio buddy Peps and Alan my partner for all your hard work in the painting, sanding, filling etc. Much much appreciated it would have took me weeks without your help. Dinner on me.....
Once the plinths were ready it all started to come together.
Then there was the cutting of the images.
The placing of the images on the plinths as taken.
A Few of the Images from the Aleatoric Country Walk
The final route consisted of 24 images and on
this aleatoric journey I decided to measure the subjects for display purpose.
After speaking with my peers I had decided to display the images on plinths,
elevating the image to its real size in the real world. The 24 plinths would be
placed as the images had been taken in a 6 ft x 4 ft sculpture.
Aleatoric Country Walk Rules
‘Aleatoric Country Walk’ is an alternative way of selecting imagery
and this was achieved by making some rules. The rules were influenced by ‘The Boyle Family – World Series 1968 – on-going’
mainly by their selection of this
body of random chosen subjects. For this work mark and Jill Boyle invited
random visitors to their studio, were they blindfolded them and asked them to
throw a dart at the map of the world. They ended up with 1000 locations around
the world, which they started to visit the sites and made selection of the
earth in a relief form.
Another main influence was the ‘MAMA – the Movement of Aleatoric Modern Artists’ a movement of approx. 50
members that pays tribute to the Dadaists of the early 20th Century.
The members are selected for their relinquishment of partial control of their
creative process to the hands of fate, the laws of physics.
I had previously worked with dice
and maps to decide locations for projects, so decided to incorporate this
within this study. This time I wanted the dice to predict the amount of time I
walked around the familiar walks. So when rolling the two dice I decided to
multiply the dice together to gain the walking time to each location, I would
then hold the camera on auto setting approx. 2ft above the area directly in
front of me. The subject’s height was then measured and documented. The dice
were then rolled again and the process repeated until the walk was completed.
Rules
1.
Pick a route by lucky dip selection.
2.
At starting point roll the dice x 2 dice
3.
Multiply dice rolled to determine the amount of
minutes to walk
4.
Start stopwatch
5.
Stop when the time has elapsed
6.
Hold camera approx. 2 ft. above subject directly
in front of my feet
7.
Do not look through the viewfinder and take an
image
8.
Re – roll the dice and start the process over
again until route/work completed
This process
removed me from any decision-making and the decision to take the image directly
in front of me allowed me to see new fragments of these walks that I had
previously not noticed. I also decided on a few rules for postproduction. I was
only allowed to use auto levels and sharpen. So the images are what they are.
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