Tag Archives: gestalt

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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Project 7: What I want to say

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Pete

In the work I carried out leading up to the Project 6 A Picture of Health I created an image of a bloody and shit covered incontinence sheet. At the time I moved on and produced the typology of Urine … Continue reading →

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A photo a day – talking about clichés

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Pete

Today’s been one of those lovely long cold sunny Sundays. I woke late, and after phoning dad engaged in an interesting discussion about clichés here. I then went to get the paper, ate roast beef with all the trimmings at … Continue reading →

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A photo a day – lines and shapes

Posted on November 24, 2014 by Pete

This vista under my desk too my eye while wondering what to shoot on this cold dark Sunday . It’s all about line, light and shape. The image may have been unconsciously inspired by Andrea Grutzner’s work shown in Source … Continue reading →

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