what to do.....

Serious lull in my art activities recently!!! why is it when I get praised I stop working???? anyway...not really sure if Im going to continue with this body stuff..giving it one last chance!! moved back towards thinking about the body and skin as a cover, as oppossed to thinking about the confessional aspect of the body, the reveal/conceal thoughts I was having. Totally not sure what I want to do. Im having difficulty starting anything that isnt a finished idea. To be honest thats what Ive always had trouble at. Id love to be able to just explore something without thinking about a piece, but it's not worked so far!!! hmmm...what to do what to do...

now..

After a great tutorial yesterday I'm nearly ready to start doing something again! I'm planning to work on concealing or hiding the naked figure. It's there but you can't see it, sort of thing. The seen and the unseen. I'm not sure whats going to come out of it, but I'm excited by it! YAY!!!!!

Casts

My most recent casts.

Some of my work, documented at last!

New Post

Oops just clicked new post by an accident...guess I should write something now!!!

Ah yes...Synechdoche NY is an AMAZING movie!!!!!! watched it last night not knowing anything at all about it and it's just incredible! Blew my mind! didn't know what to say for about 5minutes!!!
Everybody should watch it!

The Clock

This should have gone up ages ago!!! I made it aboout a year ago so the quality is rubbish! turn up your sound so you can hear the ticks!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO10vqf3jkQ

Old Sketch Books

I was looking through my old sketch books today and found this. It's the first page for the first project we did when we got into sculpture. It was a self-portrait project and I just find it really interesting that the next word I wrote down was appearance. I wonder would other people have put down something similar?! More interesting to me is that the arrow from that says "how important?". The finished piece was a sound piece and it has actually been in my thoughts a lot recently in relation to my current project second skin. The aim of that piece was to give the audience an impression of me as a person, without them ever seeing me, or being able to recognise me physically. I'm not sure exactly what the relations are between the old sound piece and my work now. I think in ways I am doing the opposite now. I am working directly from my physical appearance, but not giving a direct view of it. Also I am exploring the connections and seperations between my physical self and my Self. Finally I'm interested in Identity as an idea, a theory, more so than as a reality.

Second Skin

Looks like someone else had a similiar idea to me!!!! I've been thinking about the idea of a 'second skin', and making clothing to be that 'second skin': literally skin clothes...and here is Oliver Goulet's version.

Personally I'm not mad about his versions...for one I think the fabric still needs a lot of work if it's to look properly human, but also I intend to shape it completely differently.

Although it seems some interesting things have been made using his fabric

Yes Man

Danny Wallace's Yes Man is possibly one of the best books Ive read in ages ( and not just because I haven't finished most of the books I've started recently!!!)
Simply, it was inspiring. Maybe I shouldn't have to read a book to learn to be more positive but it certainly helped. I'm looking forward to JUST SAYING YES!!!!!!!!

ps I've hear d the movie's no great...and the trailer barely resembles the book!

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"fucking amazing, life happened"
Couldnt put it better myself....Norway was great!!