Showing posts with label lydia was here. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lydia was here. Show all posts
20 March, 2011
21 November, 2010
vagrant disposition: documentation
my first solo show, Vagrant Disposition, was on display at the Dowling St Studios on November 8. i am extremely pleased at how everything turned out and with the feedback i received from fellow Dunedin artists who came out to have a look.
i displayed four "life-size" prints, suspended from the ceiling, with video of myself holding those prints in the location in which they were taken projected on to the back of the prints (and therefor showing through the print-side). i also showed sixteen prints from my in-progress series that explores my time in New Zealand.
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| Princes St installation, other prints in background |
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| installations |
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| another view of the installations |
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| Craig's Room installation, projection side |
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| Craig's room installation, print side |
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| Jetty installation, projection side |
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| Jetty installation, print side |
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| Alley installation, projection side |
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| Alley installation, print side |
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| Princes St installation, projection side |
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| Princes St installation, print side |
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| prints on wall |
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| the space |
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| another view of the installations |
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| and another |
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| and another view of the space. |
06 September, 2010
another influence for current project
too hard to keep
photographer jason lazarus started this project. he requests that people send in photos that they feel are "too hard to keep". this implies that the images bring up memories that are too painful, so painful that they don't want to see these photos anymore. that makes it seem like by giving away these photographs, the person will no longer have that memory... or at least, will not have to think about it.
this is the most intense one that i've seen. in this case i can see why that's something you'd want to forget - but why was the image taken in the first place? evidence?
then there are others like this one that just seem silly to me. why did she take this photo if she didn't want to remember? she looks like she's been crying. i'm guessing that message on the mirror was someone breaking up with her. or was she doing the breaking? either way, again i question why she would even take the photo if she doesn't want to remember it...
this one is more like what i would expect. and this one makes the most sense to me.
it's kind of fun to think about why people submitted the photos they did. i think he needs to get a lot more submissions, though... there just aren't enough at this point.
who knows. maybe it'll be the next post secret.
photographer jason lazarus started this project. he requests that people send in photos that they feel are "too hard to keep". this implies that the images bring up memories that are too painful, so painful that they don't want to see these photos anymore. that makes it seem like by giving away these photographs, the person will no longer have that memory... or at least, will not have to think about it.
this is the most intense one that i've seen. in this case i can see why that's something you'd want to forget - but why was the image taken in the first place? evidence?
then there are others like this one that just seem silly to me. why did she take this photo if she didn't want to remember? she looks like she's been crying. i'm guessing that message on the mirror was someone breaking up with her. or was she doing the breaking? either way, again i question why she would even take the photo if she doesn't want to remember it...
this one is more like what i would expect. and this one makes the most sense to me.
it's kind of fun to think about why people submitted the photos they did. i think he needs to get a lot more submissions, though... there just aren't enough at this point.
who knows. maybe it'll be the next post secret.
TENTATIVE PROPOSAL!
LYDIA WAS HERE [[working title...]]
My intent with this project is to effectively convey the personal experiences and feelings involved with my time in New Zealand within a body of work that represents the growth of my aesthetic and theoretical “style” as manifested over the past four years. This project will be my final body of work in my college career. I plan on addressing ideas that have appeared in my work in the past (the self, male/female relations in art, personal perception, visual disorientation, the influence of text on an image, the questionable reality of photographs) as well as some new themes (photographs as memories, the “editing” of a person's life that happens through the choice of images shown, the internet as exhibition space). The resulting images will be a mixture of staged and spontaneous photographs depicting my daily life in New Zealand, a mixture of truths and fictions. All of the images I have shot since my arrival can potentially be included in this series. It is my hope that while with some images it will be obvious whether it was staged or not, with others it will be more difficult to determine. I may also include PhotoBooth images, as I have been taking a photo (almost) every day of myself since January. In addition to images this series will also include text such as letters to & from home, journal entries, and writings in retrospect. The final format of this project is yet to be determined, though I am considering (in addition to a physical exhibition) a book and a website devoted to this project alone. Along the way I will continue to blog regularly (hopefully moreso than I have so far...) as much of what appears on my blog (including comments) could potentially have a place within the finished body of work. Due to finances and the need to be continuously producing and editing, at least the majority of the images will be digital. The format of final gallery display of these images is yet to be determined. It is my hope that this project will at the very least give viewers an idea of my experience living abroad and hopefully also cause them to raise questions about the reality of photography, how we use images to replace memories, and the “editing” we perform on our own memories.
INFLUENCES
- Cortney Andrews (http://cortneyandrews.com) – female sexuality, relationships between males and females, the self, aesthetic influence
- Roberta Ridolfi's “I dreamt I dream” (http://idreamtidream.net) – visual journal, internet as exhibition space, aesthetic influence
- Jeff Harris (http://jeffharris.org) – visual journal, the self, daily documentation of self, aesthetic influence
- Charlie Engman (http://charlieengman.com) – aesthetic influence
- various blogs found on the internet
- something my roommate once said to me - “I want to make sure only good pictures of me exist so my children think I was really cool” - and that idea which I feel a lot of people have
- the fact that some people make me delete photos of themselves that they don't like
- the fact that I have trouble remembering highschool because I lost most of my photos from that time period when my computer crashed
- … living in New Zealand.
My intent with this project is to effectively convey the personal experiences and feelings involved with my time in New Zealand within a body of work that represents the growth of my aesthetic and theoretical “style” as manifested over the past four years. This project will be my final body of work in my college career. I plan on addressing ideas that have appeared in my work in the past (the self, male/female relations in art, personal perception, visual disorientation, the influence of text on an image, the questionable reality of photographs) as well as some new themes (photographs as memories, the “editing” of a person's life that happens through the choice of images shown, the internet as exhibition space). The resulting images will be a mixture of staged and spontaneous photographs depicting my daily life in New Zealand, a mixture of truths and fictions. All of the images I have shot since my arrival can potentially be included in this series. It is my hope that while with some images it will be obvious whether it was staged or not, with others it will be more difficult to determine. I may also include PhotoBooth images, as I have been taking a photo (almost) every day of myself since January. In addition to images this series will also include text such as letters to & from home, journal entries, and writings in retrospect. The final format of this project is yet to be determined, though I am considering (in addition to a physical exhibition) a book and a website devoted to this project alone. Along the way I will continue to blog regularly (hopefully moreso than I have so far...) as much of what appears on my blog (including comments) could potentially have a place within the finished body of work. Due to finances and the need to be continuously producing and editing, at least the majority of the images will be digital. The format of final gallery display of these images is yet to be determined. It is my hope that this project will at the very least give viewers an idea of my experience living abroad and hopefully also cause them to raise questions about the reality of photography, how we use images to replace memories, and the “editing” we perform on our own memories.
INFLUENCES
- Cortney Andrews (http://cortneyandrews.com) – female sexuality, relationships between males and females, the self, aesthetic influence
- Roberta Ridolfi's “I dreamt I dream” (http://idreamtidream.net) – visual journal, internet as exhibition space, aesthetic influence
- Jeff Harris (http://jeffharris.org) – visual journal, the self, daily documentation of self, aesthetic influence
- Charlie Engman (http://charlieengman.com) – aesthetic influence
- various blogs found on the internet
- something my roommate once said to me - “I want to make sure only good pictures of me exist so my children think I was really cool” - and that idea which I feel a lot of people have
- the fact that some people make me delete photos of themselves that they don't like
- the fact that I have trouble remembering highschool because I lost most of my photos from that time period when my computer crashed
- … living in New Zealand.
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