Beginning to project..

Moving on, I decided to have a go projecting some on my images, here's just a few examples of different things i tried out... I tested out projecting images onto my body and also onto objects such as a chair.

Face Projection.. you tube

i found this video on YouTube..
it gets quiet intressting a few minutes in, moving images and video's are being projected onto the persons face. this links into my work and has given me a few ideas.

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Rimma Gerlovina, Mark Berghash and Valeriy Gerlovina

I came across Rimma Gerlovina, Mark Berghash and Valeriy Gerlovin’s Magic Square 1987, they looked into the use of numbers and using the human skin as a parchment. They believe that the face is a window, and mirror of experience. They also inscribed the numbers onto the face itself. They think that odd numbers are male and even female, with number 5 being androgynous. They created something that they called the magic square, any three numbers in a row equal 15, they believe that it can unlock the mysteries of the mind.

Rimma Gerlovina, Mark Berghash and Valeriy Gerlovin’s Magic Square 1987

Numbers

This is just an overview of last semesters work, i had a slow start, but as my work progressed my theme seemed to change. At the beginning i went thorough a stage with being obsessed with numbers that related to people and things close to me, this maybe had something to do with the film 'The Number 23' i used these numbers to 'secure' memories of the people around me along with portrait photographs.

Portrait with Numbers. Black and White Photographs.

When writing these numbers down I began repeating them over and over, this was a way for me to remember them, but also by repeating them, it is securing the memory of the person even further. The trace of the numbers will always be left behind even when the person no longer is. I found that the longing I have, of not wanting to forget, is an insecurity of mine and not wanting things around me to change. I feel by having these numbers and photographs of the people who mean something to me, the memories can be anchored down for longer.


On Display: Portraits with Numbers, and Numbers. Photocopies.

I wanted to interlink the images with the numbers on and the printed numbers that represent the person. To do this I decided to display them in lines, repeating them twice. This represented how things tend to be displayed in a gallery. Being like this produced an intense and overbearing feeling. They were set out like pages in a book, so that the viewer had to move closer to them to ‘read’ the pages. The idea was that they would look at the page of numbers to get more information about the pictures.

Beginning of the year..

I began this semester thinking of other ways apart from just a photograph, that I can anchor down certain memories of people and experiences that I don’t want to be forgotten.

These feelings of keeping everything anchored down and secure was triggered by the act of my Nan throwing away old black and white family photos. She no longer valued these and as her life was nearly over, she didn’t want to dwell on the past. I had to intervene because I couldn’t let my ‘past’ be thrown away. These photographs were of family members, and held memories for me that I wanted to remember and secure these memories. I no that change is inevitable, but I want to create pieces of work that can help slow down this process.

An obvious choice was to use photographs to remember a moment or experience. A photograph produces a trace of the moment, so I took portrait style black and white photographs of my friends and family. Each person in the photograph is looking directly at the camera so as to engage with the viewer.

Portrait 4. Black and white Photograph.

Thrid Year Work..

Moving on from level two work, this blog will now be focused on my final year studio practice.

The theme of my work has progressed from level two, i am now focusing on:

• Personal memory
• Securing of a memory
• Identity
• Experiences and Longing to become.