Bear in mind that....

Further to the originally postings back in September and after a bit (!) of distraction I've finally got my act together a few weeks ago with 'bare'. These were shot digitally and form part of a short film I made the other day. I'm relatively happy with how they worked so over the coming weeks I'll put the whole series together in one hideously complex MF film shoot to ensure consistency of light, tone, etc.

Further to the typological work, I'm considering some in situ and/or absence-themed stuff. There is a small minefield of older work that also looks at light so I might trawl a bit in there as well.

A few ideas have been bouncing over the last week to put together a book-like object but I need to think it through so it's less catalogue and more art object.

Light Bulb Test Shot

More light...

I rather embarrassingly overlooked this from Mr. Shore in my bit about bulbs.

Stuff on my mind...

Running a bit distracted today. I just got off the phone with a property manager about a potential artist studio/wall space so even more so now.

The following is to purge a few things - not least of which nervous energy - all that's bouncing around a bit rough.

I get the Magnum eNewsletter and this week they had an image from David Seymour of a child in a Polish home for 'disturbed children' from 1948.

It's a very striking image that reminds me of Roger Ballen who - ironically enough - is 'featuring' as the masthead over at The Monash Gallery of Art's site.... twitch, twitch ... as I await the wash of disappointment on September 11.

I'm staggering through a few new ideas and tidying up some old. One involves the soon-to-be-extinct incandescent lightbulb. I have a series planned where I am going to look at the fragility, toxicity, (non)uniqueness and futility of that particular object.

I intend to - eventually - put out a call for old bulbs from sheds, garages, etc that have developed a patina and recontextualise them.

As a side note, whilst looking around I stumbled across BulbCollector.com.... sigh!

I recently introduced a friend to William Eggleston so this is 'obviously' on my mind... it's odd but I've never noticed the graphic in the bottom right... ?



As is this from Mr Wall...



Enough socialist purging for today. Time to do my capitalist duty and get back to the gorging.