Monthly Archives: September 2015

Project 16: Movement by appropriation.

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Pete

I re-watched Coming Home – a film I have mentioned before – last weekend, and instead of using it to inspire my approach I began experimenting on using as my approach. That is after watching it and set up my … Continue reading →

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Project 16: Movement – narrative or evocation?

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Pete

So, I’ve been trying to decide on how to express a sense of movement for this project. Of course a natural approach would be to explore and use film. However this would step outside one of the boundaries I have … Continue reading →

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Projects 13 and 14: Review and next steps

Posted on September 28, 2015 by Pete

Review of projects 13 and 14Projects 13 and 14 have been as much about curation than creation in that it triggered me into looking at many photographs of myself and also adapting lots to new ends. So I would categorise … Continue reading →

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Symposium: Unit 1 Assessment, the pop up show and the Lumen Prize

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Pete

We had a chat session that mainly focussed on the Unit 1 Assessment timetable and criteria. One of the takeaway messages from this was the fact that we will receive formal feedback in mid to late November grading our work … Continue reading →

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Project 14: The body and another approach – collage

Posted on September 23, 2015 by Pete

In some of my earlier posts on this project I noted how some images would only work in conjunction with others and so have tried to explore that here. I have chosen to create both a faux documentary collage in … Continue reading →

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My final completed research paper

Posted on September 22, 2015 by Pete

So, I put the final touches to my research paper following my one to one with Gareth Polmeer today. You can find the paper here. I really enjoyed researching the subject and writing it up.

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Tomorrow?

Posted on September 22, 2015 by Pete

Karen and I have been talking about the next stages of life post kids. This could be one option, but after 30 years in the same house moving to such a small flat might prove challenging….

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Project 14: a narrower focus – reductionism

Posted on September 21, 2015 by Pete

Rather than attempt to include my body in the body of work I am creating I could focus down onto aspects of it that relate to my experience as a disabled person. Such an approach would amplify the sense of … Continue reading →

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Gif – paint and Photoshop

Posted on September 19, 2015 by Pete

I’ve just been experimenting with using real paint and then digitising the image and using layers in Photoshop to create an image. I don’t think the effect is very good but the process was interesting.

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Alfie Connor + Maya Yianni – craft

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Pete

Taking photos is one of those things I  used to think was easy. It is: you just point the camera and take a picture. But then some photos look so much better than others and some of the reasons or … Continue reading →

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