Golden Skull

Well I set off at half seven this morning. I had been toying with the idea of getting Carl or Jonathan to come with me to take the picture and then I thought this was just a silly way of trying to raise the idea - Like we talked about putting words into neon making them mean more. So I thought I needed to take the picture and I'd thought about what I wanted. I suppose the idea is the work but I needed a picture which would look good in a portfolio when I was talking about the idea - to hook people into it- which meant I needed a stand alone image - this could be part of a body of work. There is a certain crapness to this idea which I like and dislike - the gold objects are just really desirable you just really want them and walking away from it where I found it in the woods I felt a bit like Gollum leaving his precious.

I've just got in and I'm sort of half happy with my pictures - didn't quite get exactly what I wanted but got some interesting pictures. The sheep must of been weary of the mushroomed up hippies trying to eat them as they kept running away from me. Tim came out and I was talking to him about imaging the skull inside the head of a sheep which he seemed to like but I was finding it really hard.

This is not a off the beaten track posting it's me trying to work something out about the relationship between a product (Photograph) and the idea of foundsight and Dogma. I don't think I need to do this kind of thing every time but perhaps we do need to raise the product and I'm beginning to like the idea of suggesting that "It must be art as it cannot be anything else" as a proposition. I've decided art practise is good at raising propositions for new ways of thinking - maybe not so good at exploring them.

So my favourite picture is the close up in the spot I found it which is where I left it. Which is honest quick and documentary - so it can be a poor picture but still do it's job. Maybe I don't need the other pictures but I like them as standalone images in their own rite so I'm glad I bothered to take them. I'm also glad I did the work - fist real art thing since Artemis last year which is shocking as I've only just realised. Be interesting to know what you think. Ps I like your Blackpool postings and will do a proper of the beaten track this weekend.