Tag Archives: blood

What fear looks like

Posted on March 27, 2016 by Pete

The only way I know if I am bleeding is if I see, smell, touch or hear the blood. So I will be in bed and my hand move down and find some sticky warm mess, or I will be … Continue reading →

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Making order out of disorder

Posted on November 7, 2015 by Pete

You just can’t control some things….

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Another day, another doc, another op

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Pete

My bleeding is much improved but not cured. And so it was with this in mind that I visited Orpington Hospital for a follow up appointment to my last operation on January 14th. Of course I arrived on time and … Continue reading →

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Project 7: Further experimentation and resolution

Posted on February 2, 2015 by Pete

Yesterday’s work really helped me push along my work on this project and I can see that while both renderings of the last image – see here – offer view of blood they are both too transformative on their own. … Continue reading →

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Project 7: Pausing, reflecting and concluding

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Pete

Last Friday’s little exercise on scale and the weekend have given me space to reflect and so I decided to look at the images so far created around the subject of blood, remind myself of my aims and decide where … 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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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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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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Project 7: more thoughts on representation of blood

Posted on January 23, 2015 by Pete

The issue of creating an artistic representation of my experience of bleeding as opposed to a scientific or documentary one has stayed with me. Fry talks about art reflecting the imagined life and describes how because it’s our imagined life … Continue reading →

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Project 7: Articulation and evocation through rendering

Posted on January 22, 2015 by Pete

I explained in my previous post what I wanted to achieve with this project – that is to provide a sense of what it’s like to live with constant physiological failure and fear of its implications along with a reflection … Continue reading →

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