Studio Diary
A visual record of goings on during August 2024
It’s been an explorative August in the studio. ‘Revolve’, the 52 week project with 16 other artists that I’m organising, has encouraged quite a lot of creative thought and some output, in a few different directions.
I’ve decided that my Revolve project will be based around a series of still life images using a tin as a frame, and also a limitation, for each shot. I had no constraint regarding the subject matter however, and that started to feel like it would be too random so I have decided to use the letters of the alphabet with the subject corresponding to each letter, albeit twice over throughout the 52 weeks. However, I’m now also exploring some more obscure phrases and idioms rather than just have a single word as the subject. So, for example, the image in the middle of the top row is ‘can of worms’. (No worms were harmed in the making of the image).
I also wanted to push my boundaries a bit with Revolve so have started doing some painting with acrylic as well. This is more of a ‘let’s see what happens’ exercise and I don’t envisage the paintings being a part of the project proper but it’s useful to follow the same rules for the same period of time as motivation. I might be brave enough to show those at some point…
Before starting the painting I went off on a bit of a tangent and had the idea of printing nature based images on top of previously printed output from some of my coding projects. A way of recycling old paper with a haphazard element of not knowing exactly what the output would be until it came out of the printer. Anyway, after half a dozen of those it all got a bit repetitive so I stopped.
I've taken a few pictures whilst out walking the dog this month. I think I’ve been a bit more tuned in creatively and things have caught my eye. I’m really pleased with the shot of the off-yellow doors, somewhere I must have walked past at least a couple of hundred times whilst walking the same half dozen routes around the area. I’ve got an idea to write about my editing process using this image as an example so maybe keep an eye out for that soon.
To finish off, a behind-the-scenes picture of my tin shoot setup. Thanks for your interest in my work.
