When: Sat, 16 February 2019, 8am – 12pm
The making session required some set up. I had pre-planned my session. The goal was to utilise the sustained studio time to create a video of the act of drawing for my Testing Boundaries project. I had been struggling with the concept of the task and finally felt like I was getting somewhere.
I was happy to get most of the set up done before the session started, to be filming whilst streaming and using my computer could have caused complications.
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My personal aim of the session was to create work for both the making day and the context of the Testing Boundaries project. I had been struggling with the project from the beginning.
As per usual my fingers has been dipped in many pies and although I was attempting to keep everything linked they were starting to run away with themselves. After a tutorial with Les I felt more focused and knew I wanted to create a video piece to utilise for boundary testing. As I have been preoccupied with drawing again I saw the opportunity to bring both together. I was beginning to make video work for my text pieces so this felt like a natural convergence.
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The sessions are so concentrated, this time, with the focus already laid out, it felt great. Previous sessions had felt really forced and not particularly productive.
I feel so comforted by the repetition in the drawing process. The tactility of the materials, the feeling of the abrasion.
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I got some great feedback from Rhoda when we looked at the products of the session. She said it had given her clarity to some of the points I had raised in a contextual session previously as she could see the physicality of the material collisions. The small fibers being expelled from the paper as the graphite worked the surface.
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The aim is to use the video created in this session to create a film piece where the process is projected onto the product. I don’t know if I will physically project it onto the original or simply overlay and image of the product on to the video digitally. I don't think there will be much difference in outcome but it practicality the digital overly will be easier.
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