Have been looking at contextual stuff to plan my artwork:
- Georgia O Keefe - I'm going to do some big acrylic close-ups of sculptures, from life not photos.
- Kurt Jackson - big angry paintings, in situ on beach - apparently it's going to be cloudy and windy, just what I need for a change of mood. (I had fab feedback for Fri's assessment, but an area I can concentrate on is "pushing the boundaries" with artwork, and Dawn suggested diff moods. Also got this comment from Sandy in PGD last week. Video footage is much more "wild" than soft, gentle photos. Def an area to explore...)
- Monet brush-strokes, sky, rocks, sea.
- And I really like this quote from Bill Brandt - Here’s a statement from Bill Brandt from 1948” The photographer must have and keep in him something of the perceptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time. We are most of us too busy, too worried, too intent on proving ourselves right, too obsessed with ideas to stand and stare. We look at a thing and think we have seen it, and yet what we see is only after what our prejudices tell us should be seen, or what our desires want to see. Very rarely are we able to free our minds of thought and emotions and just see for the simple pleasure of seeing, and so long as we fail to do this, so long will the essence of things be hidden from us ” So although I feel his photographs are more figurative than mine, I agree with his philosophy.
Also need to:
- film latest sculptures against sky, pref in wind/rain
- experiment with reflections, or cloud movement in photography and film
Lots to do!
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