Week 11- Time and the Image

Before today's session I did a bit more research on time and the image in the library journals and found an artist called David Bate who takes his inspiration from a 1979 film 'Stalker' that is directed by Andrey Tarkovsi. " This Film tells a story of two men being led by a stalker through the mysterious 'zone'.." This is what Bate tried to show in his images titled places of memory places of change. He had an image of a pocket watch and the time changing which i thought could be a good idea to look at for my time image.

For my time image I ended up photographing people moving and rushing to shop for Christmas in town on a 2.5 second exposure.

 I got this idea when I thought about previous exhibitions I had gone to and I thought about one i went to in 2009 called '100 days' by Jason Butler a jersey artist who I actually had a lot of time working with last year doing life drawing. He did this exhibition as a document of his travels in Rwanda.

http://www.contemporaryjerseyartists.com/exhibitions/100-days

There was a painting in this exhibition of many people in a blurred sense walking along that really caught my eyes due to the bright vivid colours in it and this is kind of what I planned to try and capture.

I did manage to capture what i wanted to but next time i should use a tripod so the background is still but i kind of feel the movement adds to the panic.

Source: Journal Portfolio no.34

  

Week 10- Blog Hand in, Gallery work discussion and Time and the image

Firstly during this weeks session Nick Papaconstantinou came in and discussed how to hand our work in on our online portal. He then talked us through how to add labels to our posts on our blog as these are helpful to get your self out there and more well known on the internet world.

We then got into small groups of about 13 people and discussed the Gallery write up we hung last week. a conclusion I drew from this is It can be difficult to find all the details of a piece of artwork but it is helpful to know so that you can maybe test the methods your self. You become aware of how differently work can be hung in a gallery space. This is good to look into for when we hang our own work in an exhibition.

I began to look into time and the image where i came across an artist  in a journal called Naoya Hatakeyama who did light trails through windows called 'Slow Glass'.


I liked the concept of different ways time can be shown such as it takes time for sound to travel and her work is about how light travels.

sources: Portfolio Journal no. 34