Category Archives: Project 20: Physical

More Rubbish

I continued with the process of sorting through items needed or ready for disposal and experimentation today. This time placing the recently created image into a different sort of mounting aimed at trying to ensure the small image won’t be … Continue reading

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Rubbish?

I’ve been doing a lot of clearing out rubbish this weekend. My brother and his wife took 11 bin bags of dad’s consumables down the dump and I have sorted numerous papers into different piles for various purposes. So it … Continue reading

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Rubbish

I’ve been working on a project that is aimed at speaking about the time when things are redundant and used up. Maybe this is because I am on the last lap of the MA – who knows.  I liked the … Continue reading

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Sculpture

Some of you might remember this post well I wanted to make something similar for the exhibition. However rather than just paint the sheaths and tubes I wanted to take the transformation a little further so that the items would … Continue reading

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Nothing (save for process, colour, shape and texture)

I’ve been trying to keep myself occupied these past few days. Dad’s back at the rehab unit and appears as okay as he can be, and I am girding myself up for tomorrow’s operation. I spent some time phoning family … Continue reading

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Building on blood and shit (and what a week!)

I’m feeling really embattled at the moment. Dad had a fall in the middle of the night on Sunday and was back in hospital, and then back to the rehab unit, and I’ve got my pacemaker operation this Friday. So … Continue reading

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Another simulacrum of blood and shit

You might remember that in my last post on this project I tried to create a physical object that represented my experience of bleeding, but that did so in a way that was clearly a mediated artistic reflected re-presentation of … Continue reading

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Is my bleeding over?

Well, I’ve only bled once since the operation on April 24th (and I know why that happened). So is my bleeding over? The thought gave me an idea for a project: instead of photographing real blood and shit I’d create … Continue reading

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Playing with crayons

I’ve been rushing a little bit because of my impending operation and stay in hospital – trying to think up new ways of presenting my symbol.  I began experimenting with oil based crayon. I had a large piece of paper … Continue reading

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An experiment in lino cutting

I’ve been racking my brains about how to key the triptych of conventional, aspirational and personal symbols into the wider set of symbols. The triptych is black and white and I think it needs to be like that – ie … Continue reading

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