After todays tutorial with Lucy i am feeling really excited and ready to move forward with my work, and hopefully have an idea on what to base my work on for the exhibition. Missing persons was readily accepted, and there was the mention of Victorian Memento Mori Photographs. However, after looking at these, i find them quiet disturbing and creepy - the mix in-between putting life and death next to one another and the pretence of everything being fine. Nevertheless, i am still set on not wanting to include people within my work, and not working with dead people - more missing. The next thing which we spoke about was having the models and photographs running side by side. This does not work. I am going to have a look at different ways to have my photos, i have already established that they look good small scale, so tomorrow i am going to get a projector and look at them big scale and see how they work within the environment. The next thing to be thought about is how my next model will look. Lucy suggested maybe having it on a plinth and what that would add to it, if you were able to walk around it. I feel that this would add to the audiences experience if they were able to walk around and look into it. Therefore, i am thinking of doing a scene of either a cliff top, bus stop or a moor land, (like the Moors Murders), where someone has gone missing from. Once i have done this i will try to figure out how best to put my photographs with it. People use the phrase, "doing a Reggie Perrin", his clothes were found on the shore line to the sea and he was never found again. I wonder if i could include some clothes into mine to hint that there was once someone there, however, when i put them there they might not be necessary and look somewhat childish. But again i will not be able to tell until put them within the piece.
Tessa Garland creates small models of scenes and then videos and manipulates them along with sound to create these strange universes. In some of the pieces, she uses cleaver methods to put people into her work. I want to take from her methods, the meticulously crafted pieces she makes. Her models are very precisely done which is what makes them so plausible, i feel like i now need to do this more within my work.
Tessa Garland creates small models of scenes and then videos and manipulates them along with sound to create these strange universes. In some of the pieces, she uses cleaver methods to put people into her work. I want to take from her methods, the meticulously crafted pieces she makes. Her models are very precisely done which is what makes them so plausible, i feel like i now need to do this more within my work.