Stopping Time Project

I was interested in a theory that time really does speed up as people get older, which was backed up with mathematical equations. I used these as a basis to our experiments with paint. Having lots of ideas for this project I eventually focused my project on a bundle of letters I had unearthed during a de-cluttering of my belongings. The letters were written to me by my mother when I was at boarding school. She wrote hundreds of them. I had also photographed a corner of my room which was emptied in my 'de-cluttering' and was a great place to think and spend time. I re-built a scaled down corner of the room to house the stack of letters and created some images thinking about the emotional motivations of the letter writing.

Disappearance Project - Using photography, collage and effects to alter or conceal our appearance.

First we used magazine cuttings and photos of ourselves, then began to layer up photographs. The theme throughout this two day project for me seemed to be one of being 'trapped'. We used different lighting to vary effects and disguised the face and body. The above photo is cling film over my face. Other photos show chainmail projected over my body.

Site & Scale Project - waiting for a sunny, breezeless day on Hulme Bridge. The Project was to site and scale-up a previous project. I chose my spoon moulds project.

Wintry Trip to Crosby and Liverpool

                                           Frosted skylight on the morning of the trip

                                                   Less barnacled than others.

Text, Signs & Symbols Project. I really enjoyed this project and explored a few ideas for it, all based around a journey.

The first was my running route around the water park.

Another was based around the two definitions of the word 'ramble'.  One is a journey and the other, being discourse, was the 'text' part of the project. I explored the idea of writing 'ramblings' on a piece of string and possibly filming it being unravelled around trees to keep bearings whilst on a journey into a forest.

This idea was based around one of my favourite pieces of poetry 'Prayer Before Birth' by Louis Macniece. This is quite a dark poem, voicing passionate and feaful pleas from the unborn child of their life to come.

I explored the idea of scratching it into the dark shadows of an ultrasound photo, then surrounding the image with the usual 'cute' baby images associated with birth as a contrast.

For another idea, I thought about the opposite 'life journey', that of the journey of death and visited Southern Cemetery. The tombstones provided text references and I took lots of photos. I made my own stone, with common euphemisms of death 'asleep' and 'resting' and added my own, more direct word - 'dead!' I constructed the letters using the different architectural shapes of the gravestones, of which I had taken photos.

The idea of 'happy' funerals, was on my mind, which I had read about recently, so I thought I'd extend that to my gravestone and add a little neon!

Cardboard Catwalk: The Head

Cardboard Catwalk Collaborative Project 'The Odd Couple' (based on the artists Laurie Anderson and Odilon Redon)

Self Portrait from Uni photo, inspired by Laurie Anderson. Mounted on card, with cut out eyes lit by a torch.

Adorning 'the head' with flowers

Dark, hollow eyes!