Under Construction
Under Construction here denotes a 'double entendre' referencing my studies of a construction site and the development of my practice.
Throughout the final module I was going through many ideas to try and find a painterly language that really started to push my practice into new directions. I wanted to embrace the recent developments of understanding how psychogeography, interstice and non-place were part of my language. At first it seemed almost too hard to step forward and was struggling to develop. I was looking at Alex Hartley and started to believe that I needed to find places that held some personal memories and that would make my work more believable and authentic. I also considered developing a body of work about places around where I live, familiar surroundings such as Fort Halstead. This would have potentially lead to a politically charged body of work which was not a language I wanted to introduce at this stage.
I went back to my body of work I produced for the previous assessment which was about the construction site and was born from my time spent last summer running and participating in the Bank Street Residency. I felt that the construction site was a non-place, a transient ever evolving environment, an interstice. So if started to dig deeper, pardon the pun, then I could really build on this by stripping the image right back and really editing out elements.
Under Construction
Under Construction here denotes a 'double entendre' referencing my studies of a construction site and the development of my practice.
Throughout the final module I was going through many ideas to try and find a painterly language that really started to push my practice into new directions. I wanted to embrace the recent developments of understanding how psychogeography, interstice and non-place were part of my language. At first it seemed almost too hard to step forward and was struggling to develop. I was looking at Alex Hartley and started to believe that I needed to find places that held some personal memories and that would make my work more believable and authentic. I also considered developing a body of work about places around where I live, familiar surroundings such as Fort Halstead. This would have potentially lead to a politically charged body of work which was not a language I wanted to introduce at this stage.
I went back to my body of work I produced for the previous assessment which was about the construction site and was born from my time spent last summer running and participating in the Bank Street Residency. I felt that the construction site was a non-place, a transient ever evolving environment, an interstice. So if started to dig deeper, pardon the pun, then I could really build on this by stripping the image right back and really editing out elements.