Wednesday, 21 October 2009

not a proper posting

This is not a proper posting just some ideas I want to put out for discussion. I'm in a real try things out frame of mind and the skull pictures made me think about photography and the quality of image we use. If I use my "Just good enough" Approach I suppose the images from my phone for this posting before were problematic for me so I've gone back and re shot it. I took 60 or so pictures and did an edit. I gold leafed an X on a headstone to mark the spot - felt guilty and cleaned it off I don't think I'm a very good graffiti artist although I suppose there is a history to desecrating graves which I don't want to be part of. I also gold leafed a cigarette butt and then a packet of gold players as this was just a bit to obscure and after Jonathan's comments about the somebody finding the skull I thought of the secret chain smoker finding the gold leafed packet and it made me smile. I also include image of "Ceramic spade shaped Ridge tiles for your information (The ones my dad shot off with his 4/10. So I think the pictures are better but maybe the don't need to be- I sort of like the intervention but then again I don't think we need to do this every time we go off the beaten track - Maybe the rules stay as they were but we develop work from it - like a conversation with somebody or the skull which becomes something in it's own right. Talking of which I think it needs to be a diptych piece a close up and a context shot taken simultaneously with two camera's - what do you think am I getting dogma obsessed OCD or just becoming an artist again.




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