research journal (MA and beyond)
setting out my wares: time to get some bumf ready for our exhibition catalogue. of course its not bumf but actually an important process that involves trying to distill what my work is about. seems easier to write in the first person for my statement but in the third person for my bio ... turns... Continue Reading →
physical making and the horizontal frame: i am switching over and back between research writing and physical making.... both seem to be informing each other which is always the point i suppose. the last few sessions of making continues a process that i began a few months ago, where i printed my bitmaps for screen... Continue Reading →
key areas of my practice: landscape, lens, body, gender, image ways i work: my work mainly consist of video, print or a combination of video and print. at the moment i am working on video installations and video and print installations. the works i include here are all works in progress ... about... Continue Reading →
experiments in projection installation: i spent last night in the studio experimenting with different way to project my stereo landscapes recorded on two separate cameras - testing different ways they could layer on top of each other yet still read as left right frames and overlapped sufficiently in the middle. when i was happy i... Continue Reading →
some experiments: am working nights these days as need to do contextual research during the day and the days are too bright for installations anyway. i spent last night setting up my projectors to see how the videos would layer and play on top of each other. each video is the same landscape with varying... Continue Reading →
journey through measuring the easterlies returning to double vision: i just spent the last few days rethinking and reworking my 'double vision' videos that i had been working on in january. this comes out of an intensive few days working on my contextual study which looks at the gendered framing of the landscape in terms... Continue Reading →
written work: i have had the head down researching, reading and writing my contextual study for the past few weeks. while i have really enjoyed the routine of heading down to the studio every morning and getting stuck in, it has been a hard slog working my way through reading material and trying to clarify/articulate... Continue Reading →
plan for making day: for making day i plan to revisit the framing of the landscape using the rectilinear frame but this time really trying to stretch it horizontally as much as i can. i have head my stuck in my contextual study these last few days and discussing how the horizontality of the rectilinear... Continue Reading →
elaine crowe 