Untitled 1998 http://fadedandblurred.com/spotlight/gregory-crewdson/
Crewdson is an American photographer who focuses his work mainly around twilight. He creates artificial scenes based around this time. However, his work is slightly eerie. The settings are mainly the same, as suburban neighbourhood, the one that you almost imagine to be on tv. But when you look deeper into these frozen photographs, the people in them all seem to have something unnerving about them. They are acting or doing something weird. There is just something wrong with the photograph. It makes them intriguing but it also makes you want to stop looking at them incase you find something you don't want to. It is although the people in them have all gone mad. I need to focus more on the way i stage my photographs, i believe it could be interesting to take photographs of my sculptures at different times of the day and see what that lends to it. I will defiantly try this with my moorland piece.
Untitled 1998 http://fadedandblurred.com/spotlight/gregory-crewdson/
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This zine is to be put with the sculpture, so everyone can hopefully get a sense for the people who disappeared on the moors/ countryside.
I have been really pleased with the result of my moorland, and others around me have said that this is their favourite piece which i have produced so far! ...I believe that it adds more depth and vulnerability to it that you are able to walk around it. I have put the hight at just below eye hight. This enables you to almost feel like you are in it and amongst, you can easily crouch down and out yourself very close to the sculpture. Once i have finished painting the plinth i will add some more moss around base of the main sculpture to make it seem although it is growing. The photos that i have gained from it seem to work best where i have captured the sky in them. This is the first time which i have photographed one of my models outside. The fact that i am then including real life elements to it, just adds to the deception even more! ...Within the sculpture, there is a small path of soil which abruptly ends. Like the path of the lives of the missing people i am looking at, something which has just suddenly gone. Where i have made purple heather, at a quick glance it almost looks like blood, however, it is then visible to what it really is. Nevertheless, this adds a sinister side to the piece, resembling something which may be a little darker than what it started off being. I produced this piece by slowly uncovering, piece by piece, sections of the tree and dusting the soil away. Every bit of soil i dusted i took a photo, hoping to make it seem although the tree was growing when i played it back. However, i did not set it up very well and had a bit of the outside of the box showing, which made it visible of the scale. Because i didn't want this to be apparent, i cropped it. Nevertheless, this then resulted in not all of the pictures being cropped exactly the same. This was very annoying as it moves the frame around a significant amount. I was not happy anyway with how the box was looking, as i felt that it didn't have any interesting points to it, it was boring. Because of this i decided not to refill it and just go ahead with this footage, otherwise i would have reset it back up and photographed it again. The sound which goes along with it was taken from a kettle and has been morphed as much as i could. As i haven't got the right technology and experience to adapt sound, it doesn't really fit in with the tree...but again, it was something new which i tried out.
Even though this piece didn't work out, i found that it was still an interesting process to practise. Again, even though the film doesn't work, i printed out some of the frames which i got from it and made that into a handheld flip book (now in my sketchbook). I wanted to see what these photographs would look like if i was to make them bigger, covering a wall. I was extremely pleased with the result of the sea destruction ones. I felt that when you were standing in front of them they were so powerful, and you could feel the force which was behind them, these only suit being at this scale. My peers agreed with me which was helpful to hear. Nevertheless, i felt that the house composition didn't look right being big. It made it look fake and artificial, as the flaws in it became somewhat highlighted. I will have to find another way to present the house photographs.
There is a certain type of irony typing in your search engine for missing people and finding searching missing people web pages..However, i have been finding some interesting pieces. It amazes me how some people are able to disappear and never be found. It is both amazing yet worrying really. These are some of the most useful sites so far in finding some stories that i could use: http://www.cracked.com/article_19765_the-5-creepiest-disappearances-that-nobody-can-explain.html http://www.missingpeople.org.uk/help-us-find/david-lang http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-unexplained-disappearances.php
I have found quite a few that seem to either go off walking or just seem to disappear in the countryside. I remember from walking on Dartmoor mum telling me that there was a jail put there as anyone who escaped would never make it off dartmoor. However, why if they did...but were never caught! ...My mind is now made up on what box to make next, i shall make my own perception of the moors. |
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Kerry FosterThird Year Fine Art Student at Falmouth School of Art. Fellow artists: |