It was so wonderful to complete this project/ exhibition and see it all up and everyone enjoying it. There have definitely been more people looking than i expected! We spoke about one another's work in relation to presence and absence. Many people hadn't included a full body, and we thought that may be as it can still create a presence but a distant one. We then spoke about an 'online presence' and how that is becoming more and more popular. There once was victorians with wigi boards and now us with online graveyards. Berlinda Whiting had a lovely book which she had made about her daughters death, and made it into something that would be accessable to children to read to understand death. I then moved on to just looking at my work. The great thing about having my work installed in there was that i was able to see it in a different context, how it worked in a gallery space and being played on a plasma screen. Yes, it looked ok, but i don't believe that this is what it should be presented on. Perhaps next i should try a box monitor and see how that it, perhaps that would hold so more resemblence to memory and old things. Or i might look to projecting it large again. Perhaps for my assessment i might put up the plastic sheeting again, and view it there and see if the studio room gives it a different feel. I was sat watching my work for a while and again, i started to feel as though the toes were moving, but i know for a fact that they aren't. However, i did feel that the continued length was too much. I now want to try splitting it up with a black screen for a few seconds of relief. When i was watching it i also felt uncomfortable by the two films side by side, the body sitting on the fake scene. The colours were saturated, and they really started to make me feel ill toward the work - they were sickly. It was hard to see what fitted there. The colours didn't, nor did the body. This was the uncomfortable feeling i had been desiring so much. Yes. I'm nearly there!!
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April 2016
Kerry FosterThird Year Fine Art Student at Falmouth School of Art. Fellow artists: |