Monthly Archives: January 2015

Project 7: More of a colour diversion

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Pete

I’ve spent today on a little diversion by looking at colour and scale. This was triggered by the utter failure of the effect of colour on my colour blood grid for Project 7. The intention is just to explore the … Continue reading →

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Project 7: Articulation and evocation through colour values

Posted on January 29, 2015 by Pete

Yesterdays sojourn back into the world of Serrano and Piss Christ reminded me of the role of colour in evoking different emotions. The golden hues of the image made me wonder about the colour rendering of blood on my project. … Continue reading →

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But is it Art?

Posted on January 28, 2015 by Pete

A colleague responded to the work I doing with the representation of blood but noting that he had come across an interesting book entitled ‘But is it art?’ by Cynthia Freeland which has a chapter on blood and beauty, and … Continue reading →

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Symposium on sound

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Pete

We had an interesting symposium on sound today. I haven’t though much about sound at all in regard of my work up until now. Ed took us through the nature of recording digitally and then we reflected on issues such … Continue reading →

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Project 7: A little more thought on the Grotesque

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Pete

This project is proving harder than I originally thought it would be. Coming back and looking at the grid rendering of blood in my last post deflated me a bit. I don’t think it offers the evocation of intensity I … Continue reading →

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Part 2: Appropriation, forgery or plagiarism?

Posted on January 26, 2015 by Pete

The questions I raised in the previous post I made recently on this subject were also published in Flickr and the responses raised some very interesting points such as it only matters if things like ownership are important. But one … Continue reading →

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Project 7: Articulation and evocation through multiplication

Posted on January 26, 2015 by Pete

Reflecting on the work in the project carried out so far I wondered whether offering viewers both a artistic and documentary sense of my situation would be better carried out by multiple rendering of the image in different renderings rather … Continue reading →

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Submitting to Xhibit

Posted on January 25, 2015 by Pete

I received an email from SUARTs today alerting me to this opportunity to exhibit my work. As I am closest to Project 6: A Picture of Health I decided to submit that.   Here is what I said to the … Continue reading →

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Appropriation, forgery or plagiarism?

Posted on January 25, 2015 by Pete

I’m not sure what to make of this “Luc Tuymans found guilty of plagiarism for painting of politician”. I can understand forgery – passing something of as one thing when it’s another. I can understand appropriation – taking one thing … Continue reading →

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Tutorial

Posted on January 23, 2015 by Pete

I had a good catch up with Jonathan this afternoon and we talked about the following things. Where indexes become transformed into new things so that they no longer represent the referent. Photoshop and using its features to make individual … Continue reading →

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