Fall Progressive Review

My set up for my progress review.

Jane Gifford

So I just happened to come across this artist while flicking through the book Dream Machines, Lucky Me!

Jane Gifford has been recording her dreams and making works exploring dream language and narrative, the cumulative process of dreaming and notions of the diary, through drawing, painting, printmaking, installation and video.
Her website is really worth a look at, I really like her dream journal. A little illustration accompanied by a short paragraph.

'Dream Journal, November 2004'

'Dogs in Boots'

'Dream Home'
The perfect home for dreaming - a standard garden shed, painted a
'dream-like' lilac, furnished with a bed and papered with facsimile pages from the Dream Drawings notebooks.



'Dream Paintings 2001'
A series of small, narrative, (monochrome except for remembered colour)
paintings of key dream moments.

156 paintings, 3 for every week of the year.

(The way the above works are presented is similar to how I would like to present my bed photography.)

A photo a day

So it was suggested that I take a picture of my bed every morning when I wake up. I think this idea could work really well. I only started last week so I dont have a lot to work with, I'm just trying to do mock ups for my progressive reviews even though the idea at this stage isent really effective.
I've been doing this in two formats, One is a close up of my bed the other is zoomed out showing more of my bed and who ever is on it at that given time.
I plan to do loads of them and either have them mounted individually, or all on one page making a grid or series of photos.

 

Each one is the same but slightly different, the above images have been taken over the past four days.

I like the idea of them being passport size. I have a series of old passport size photos of my great grandfather they are all slightly different, almost like stills from a film rather than photographs, ( I will post them on a later date.) I really like the imagery of the photos, how thew flow into each other. There was also an image I found in a magazine that I have given to a friend which visually was along the same idea. Unfortunetly I have to do this through photoshop, which for me is an almighty challenege. I can never get the damn thing to do what I want!

 

A wider shot of the bed. (22-0ctober-2012)

A close up shot of the bed. (21-Oct-12)
This might be more interesting visually....i wont know till I have more of them..

 

 

Cushion Dreams

 

So I have abandoned my wooden frames and have converted by embroidered text into cushions. They are quit small, but I will make some pillow size further down the line. I'm not sure if I like them or not, they aren't very symmetrical....

I have my assessment tomorrow and after it is over I will restitch the last bits were I have to close the hole up so it is a bit neater and shift the cotton around so its not so lumpy looking....A bit of a rush job today as I have a lot to do before tomorrow...

 

There will be alot more cushions/pillows further down the line. Hopefully this will eventually turn into an installation piece, accompanied by photos displayed above the cushions/pillows, through slide film (suggested by my tutor)....

Visually it all looks good in my head, but we shall see. I have alot of sewing to do....its very tedious.

Mariele Neudecker

Yesterday we had an artists talk by Mariele Neudecker.
She is a sculpture and photographer.  Her tank pieces are my favorite, They are dreamy, ghostly worlds contained within a small space. Little souls concealed within a glass tomb.
With alot of her work she references, paintings, etchings and other 2d works. The titles of her work are very important, they add another layer to the finished piece.

'Her practice investigates the formation and historical dissemination of cultural constructs around the natural world, focusing particularly on landscape representations within the Northern European Romantic tradition and today’s notions of the Sublime. Central to the work is the human interest and relationship to landscape and its images used metaphorically for human psychology.'

'Thousand Generations'

'Heaven, The Sky'

'I dont know how I resisted the urge to run'

Recipes From the Kitchen Drawer

As some of you know I used to post my weekly recipe, which has stopped, mostly because I am cooking something new everyday, (trying to make home grown veg and food budget ingredients more interesting), and I cant keep up with it all.
BBC Good Food is a great site by the way for recipe ideas.
 But today I thought I'd share a great book called, 'Recipes from the Kitchen Drawer' a graphic cookbook by Helen Ashley.
I don't have the book but I have been collecting the recipes from the back of the Telegraph magazine every week (the book is on my wish list). It is such a wonderful idea, presenting recipes in a simple comic book way, combining graphic design with cooking. They are simple and easy to follow. I made Chili Con Carne the other day using one of her recipes and it was wonderful.

Ice cold, stitch

 

Another finished stitch piece, the heart was done by chance, there was a mark on the screen that looked like a heart, so there you go, It seems to work.