Being Object Dense You

Relations to the body and mind. This is my music video collection 

The Chemical Brothers ft Beck Wide Open

"Impressive Visual Art" 

Extremely technical, showing our form as a hollow case. I was shown this video by my Dad around a week ago and I was in awe at the special effects, how the connections between the background and placement of clothing aligned so well within the environment. Put a dancer in a warehouse, let them take there place. Then add the trick that makes her 'wide open'. You've now got a simple but detailed, rich piece of art.

Beyoncé Rocket

"This song gives me such chills just because of those harmonies"

"I wonder how many babies were made after hearing this"

Full of sexual signs, innuendos and saucy imagery. I first witnessed this video nearing the end of my second year of college, I instantly feel in love with the cinematography, I find it empowering.

Tom Rosenthal Fine One Day 

A journey of two people. Different train of thoughts. A story of two people fixated together in their own little world (due to the colour co-ordinated outfits and the Overall for me it's a positive song showing that people can sadly part ways. At the start of a relationship we can become so fixated on ourselves as two, that we forget about our surrounding. We don't notice what anyone else is doing, it's like wearing rose tinted glasses. Just a matter of time until someone takes them off.

Nick Jonas Teacher

Using the body as a tool to express the song lyric in rhythm.

Jack Garratt Surprise Yourself 

Bear's Den Above The Clouds Of Pompeii 

Beyoncé Ghost

Belle & Sebastian Perfect Couples

Slow Club Two Cousins

Oh Wonder Lose It 

The Silver Squasher

A couple of weeks ago

As I sat down in the living room one evening with Dad, I turned on the TV.

As soon as I turned it on, it lay on BBC Two.

The programme titled 'Imagine... Summer 2016: 2. DANGER! Cornelia Parker' appeared

I didn't know what the programme was about at first but I quickly became intrigued.

Cornelia Parker, her name ran a bell. It wasn't until one of her pieces popped up on screen, I finally knew who she was and what she's created.

'Cold Dark Matter: An Explosive View: 1991'

I first came across this during my time in college. I guess this subconsciously helped navigate my interest towards the art I'm interested in today, art that submerges into their environment. I love how it spreads out touching all four walls including ceiling and floor, it has no end or beginning and although the piece fills the room, the viewer is still able to explore throughout. This is what I love, being able to connect and emerge your body into a piece of art.  

BBC iPlayer: Cornelia Parker

I advise anyone who's interested in the use of space and found objects, to watch this programme.

'Brilliant Ideas: Sculptor and Artist Cornelia Parker'

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Site & Context & Place

Limbo

An uncertain period of awaiting a decision or resolution; an intermediate state or condition.

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I feel lost 

"It's a part of your life that's going to be tarnished" Mum 19:59/ Wednesday 3rd August

I feel like I'm out on a limbo

Like I'm waiting for something, something that I don't know

I'm waiting for the unknown, what does the unknown look like? 

Is it clean and pure?

Is it dense and dirty?

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Personally, I relate the unknown to a blank piece of white paper.

I think of it's purity, it's openness to change and possibilities. 

A blank piece of white paper has so many possibilities.

It can be the start of a brilliant idea.

A heart filled letter.

I feel like a blank piece of white paper gets us back to basics.

To the start.

Where we belong.

A blank piece of paper doesn't hold many memories.

Many feelings.

It's a beginning.

A fresh start.

Freshly made but easily dirtied.

A blank piece of white paper holds power.

Possibility.

Every sketchbook I've owned, once started out as a blank piece of white paper.

Now.

I've nurtured it into something my own.

Something that now has a hold on me.

Something that now carries my past. 

"Things are in motion, unfortunately things take time" Dad 21:17/ Wednesday 3rd August

"She painted a really bleak picture" Dad 21:31/ Wednesday 3rd August

A blank piece of white paper can be positioned at the start of a book or the end of a book.

Therefore it's represents both sides.

Beginning and End. 

Which puts me on edge 

Things can go either way.

It puts me bang in the middle.

It puts me in limbo. 

It makes me walk a tight rope. 

Able to fall any second.

Things aren't certain. 

Or set in stone.

I don't know what to feel anymore.

It's the

'The Unknown Life'

A blank piece of white paper is just a blank piece of white paper, it's up to you what meaning you give it.

You create the meaning, you are in charge of a blank piece of white paper.

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Pinterest has been an excellent source of inspiration for me, within my Site & Place & Context I've been inspired by simplicity. Pieces of wok that don't have an upfront meaning. The meaning doesn't come from the piece of art, the meaning comes from the individual looking at the piece of art. This is important to me.

'Alan Reynolds'

'Alan Reynolds'

'Recap “(de)Constructions” Group Exhibition at Backslash Gallery'

'Galleriurbane' 

'Portals, first phase...the journey of a thousand miles begins with the first steps...time to take them, let us adorn you for it! #beagoddess'

'Alan Reynolds'

'Lesley-Foxcroft'

'Lesley-Foxcroft'

'Jumpei Kinoshita'

'Loris Cecchini - Extruding Bodies - Gaps (books I), 2005 polyester, wall paint'

'And the night smells like snow. Walking home for a moment you almost believe you could start again. And an intense love rushes to your heart, and hope. It’s unendurable, unendurable. ― Franz Wright, closing lines to “Night Walk” from God’s Silence.' 

 'Wall mounted lighting fixture by PSLAB.'

'Herman de Vries: "Ruimtelijke toevals-structuur", 1965 (Rekonstruktion 2011–2014)'

'LFontana (1899 - 1968), Concetto spaziale, Attesa'

Moving

Within our process of moving, I was intrigued by the act of packing, securing away our possessions. 

Wrapping them in another layer, no longer exposed and seen for what it is.

It's protected, for it's next shift.

I was wrapping objects, preparing them, taking them away from there usual space.

Waiting for it's transaction, into it's new unknown environment.

It may be the most expensive chair/ piece of furniture you own but it still it gets wrapped up in cheap newspaper, bubble wrap and string.

It's true self is hidden, it takes on a new identity, it may be down grading but it's a layer of protection.

Could this relate to us as well? 

'Christo. Packed Arm Chair, 1965'

'Walead Besthy | FedEx® Large Kraft Box ©2005 FEDEX 330508 REV 10/05 SSCC, International Priority, Los Angeles–Brussels trk#865282057953, October 27–30, 2008, International Priority, Brussels–Los Angeles trk#866071746385, December 8–9, 2008 | 2008 | Laminated glass, FedEx shipping box, accrued FedEx shipping and tracking labels, silicone, metal, tape'

What value does this have? 

It holds the Apple logo, therefore it is a product of the company

But it's also a cardboard box 

This makes me think of frames

We place things into frames for protective 

But unlike cardboard boxes, newspaper and bubble wrap 

Frames make the object more valuable 

'Doris Salcedo'

'Funny Brick Chair - Chair Blog'

'David Hammons at L & M'

'Christo & Jeanne-Claude'

'Another Doris Salcedo Chair embedded in concrete'

'David Hammons Untitled, 2010 mixed media 108 x 84 inches'

'Joseph Beuys, 1966, piano covered with felt and leather'