I love scanning objects - the copier always blows the light out so wonderfully, leaving these smears and distortions.
From my 2013 body of work.
Saturday 25 May 2013
Wednesday 8 May 2013
Doodah: The Work, Part 3
What the water gave me, 2013
expanding insulation foam, aluminium foil, cellophane
Doodah: The Work - Part 2
It's Like Forgetting The Words To Your Favourite Song, 2013
aluminium foil, aluminium tape
Monday 6 May 2013
Daria Krotova
"Krotova’s work focuses on the representation of real, living shapes – heads, faces and hearts – isolated from their usual physical contexts. Her visual language raises our consciousness of the representation of life, even of imaginary creatures, within the art historical tradition.
Her installations are sometimes composed of thin, papier-mache-like sculptures; other times of porcelain, another material that could be easily shattered.
For some projects she has created sites with ‘archeological’ objects – not pottery shards but bones and teeth and horns made out of ceramics as a way of underscoring the fragility and fetishisation of historical remains."
(Taken from the Saatchi Gallery profile site)
From 'Heart, Organ Of Love (Sometimes My Heart Turns Into A Chicken)' series:
Her installations are sometimes composed of thin, papier-mache-like sculptures; other times of porcelain, another material that could be easily shattered.
For some projects she has created sites with ‘archeological’ objects – not pottery shards but bones and teeth and horns made out of ceramics as a way of underscoring the fragility and fetishisation of historical remains."
(Taken from the Saatchi Gallery profile site)
From 'Heart, Organ Of Love (Sometimes My Heart Turns Into A Chicken)' series:
Saturday 4 May 2013
Discoveries are exciting
Damien Rudd - Objects of Intimacy (2011)
Artist’s statement:
“A person’s pillow is their most intimate object. For this project I have photographed 5 pillows from 5 different people. Each pillow is at a different stage of transformation relative to its age and frequency of use.
With these images I aim to show something that is generally hidden. To view them is to see a part of the owner; the history is the relationship between the owner and the object. The pillow is moulded and transformed by the markings of bodily fluids so it becomes as individual and distinctive as that of a fingerprint. It is no longer an innate manufactured object, but is now impregnated with life and mutation.
Each pillow was photographed in the same manner a forensic scientist may examine criminal evidence. The hidden and discreet is now open for public close study. When an individual’s pillow is relieved publicly, it causes a sensation of embarrassment and shame. In our culture, the exertion of bodily fluids is considered distasteful. This is especially true when it may be associated to sleeping in one’s bed. We find it somehow disturbing, yet fascinating, as it is one human occurrence that unites us and emphasizes that in the end, we are just merely human.”
Artist’s statement:
“A person’s pillow is their most intimate object. For this project I have photographed 5 pillows from 5 different people. Each pillow is at a different stage of transformation relative to its age and frequency of use.
With these images I aim to show something that is generally hidden. To view them is to see a part of the owner; the history is the relationship between the owner and the object. The pillow is moulded and transformed by the markings of bodily fluids so it becomes as individual and distinctive as that of a fingerprint. It is no longer an innate manufactured object, but is now impregnated with life and mutation.
Each pillow was photographed in the same manner a forensic scientist may examine criminal evidence. The hidden and discreet is now open for public close study. When an individual’s pillow is relieved publicly, it causes a sensation of embarrassment and shame. In our culture, the exertion of bodily fluids is considered distasteful. This is especially true when it may be associated to sleeping in one’s bed. We find it somehow disturbing, yet fascinating, as it is one human occurrence that unites us and emphasizes that in the end, we are just merely human.”
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