A Note about the Work

The imagery produced so far depicts solid mass: stone, concrete and metal, but in a way that it is presented as an open construction of planes.

Digital montage: problemitised sight, illusion, art and sculpture.

Greenberg's comments about collage are relevant to the reading of my digital montages. I use similar materials like wallpaper. There is the same optical play on depth and surface, foreground and background. There are other ways of seeing that seem as relevant and connected. The digital montage in its transitions shifts the wallpapers and the flowers from being intaglio to relief and back again. This shifting view recalls Helen Chadwick’s Piss Flowers which seem to be moulds and then transform into the very objects that come out of moulds.

Chadwick, Helen Piss Flowers, 1991-2
Bronze, cellulose lacquer

Still from The Irritated Gaze, Part II Intimations 2010. Digital image, wallpaper and light.

Flower Pictures

These are new pictures. They seem to recall Max Ernst's Shell Flower work and the paintings of Georgia O'Keefe.

New Developments: Deepest Autumn and a Big Thank You

Well many thanks to Graham for the help here. He has helped me get this far and really figure out what it is I need from technology and software. Check out Graham's fantastic blog! Nancy too has given me some great advice and showed me with great patience around After Effects. Both have been extremely kind.

I call this section Deepest Autumn. I am fusing my numerous interests and concerns. The light effects are my attempts to capture aspects of migraine auras and there are plenty of abstract and painterly elements that point to many to the many artists I have blogged about.

It has a lot of the subtlety that I wish to bring to my work. I am considering drawing out the transitions between the various imagery.

Current Developments: 8

As promised, here are some photographs......

The above imagery are stills from the opening scenes of David Lean's Great Expectations (1946). The imagery is not cinematic, as in not official stills or photographed from a projection on a screen. They are televisual or at least a DVD recording, not video. The nature of the image is important.

Firstly, why did I choose this film and these scenes. The imagery presents us with an atmosphere of menace. The sight of a tree, seen through the eyes of the young Pip metamophoses into a threatening force. Such stylisation is very subtle.

There is something interesting and Romantic about the representation of nature as a malevolent force. I must add an entry about the grandeur of nature and deal with some of these difficult issues.

However the above image is photographed from nature. I did whole sequence of photographs of trees changing the aperture and shutter speed in search of the right effects for my project. I am particularly interested in the way nature or objects are mediated: 'direct images' of nature are overlap screen based imagery.

The above sequences of images are stills from Robert Wise’s The Haunting. The classic horror film uses subtlety to imply menace. The metamorphosis of a wallpaper pattern into a monstrous figure is produced by a slight manipulation of the camera and lighting.
These representations are surrealist and recall the grattage works of figures emerging from wallpaper or wood grain.

The influence of Ernst and my own memories of night terrors as a child led me examine Ernst’s “Irritated gaze” and the relationship between illness and the visual.

The above image interests me because of its ethereal nature. I am fascinated by gestures and blurred figures. This resembles Gerhard Richter’s photo-realist paintings.

Current Developments: 7

There have been some headway made in the development of my digital projections. The software After-Effects seems to hold the key to there formation.


I must make sure that I visit this site: www.videocopilot.net

How this software will transform my ideas is hard to imagine at the moment. There are plenty of questions concerning the the nature of my work: will it be interactive and if so, how will it operate. I still have a lot of dots to connect.

More imagery will be posted asap. It will include some photography!!!