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 

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'

Context & Place & Site

    I sit crosslegged on the ground of my nest

I look around 

What do I see?

What do you see?

I see the past 

My past 

& 

Future

What about your present?

Does anyone notice that?

Do you? 

Unfortunately not

I see where I've feared

I've laughed 

I've panicked 

I've cried

I've seen where I've felt in love 

I've felt hope 

I've felt content 

I see my hair falling to the base in clumps

I see myself 

My self 

Myself progressing  

Myself at my worst

But did you know at the time that it was your worst?

No

I always hoped for things to get better

I'm scared of going backwards 

But now you can't relive your past

I know It's impossible but I cant help my mind 

I go back to staring out into the world through the branches of my walls 

My nose tingles with pain as I feel my eyes moist with tears

Going back to the place, what else do you see?

I

see

Lavender, stems high looking outwards with pride

Asking if I know Beyoncé

Says he doesn't 

Dad flees the nest

The rhythm of his steps 

The candle lit from her right shines and flickers 

The white clouds are still visible  

at 22:29

on Saturday 25th June 

It's Never Over Till

There you go

I've finally finished my first year of Sculpture & Environmental Art at Glasgow School of Art. 

Eight months of living and breathing in Glasgow done, of course until September. 

I'm going to share with you what I've learnt within. Through the short time of being in the big city I've discovered a lot about my abilities and downfalls. It's been a very rocky couple of past months but I'm eager to get on track once again. In the past couple of days I have began to gain a new perspective, a clear reflection of the year as a whole.

"Alice, so what exactly have you learnt then?"










"If we're going to heal, let it be glorious"

People say that your University years is the time where you find yourself, find your voice and calling. 

1.  Within this year I have fallen through the depths of my anxiety but the silver lining is, I know I'm able to stand up again. I am capable of more, more than my mind can predict 

2. I have realised how much I want to overcome, even better.. accept parts within myself, I want to 'just do'

"My torturer became my remedy"

3. Living and defending for yourself is hard, balance is what you need. You need to take care, at the same time you need to live, be full of life, be spontaneous and young 

4. Just because you've struggled doesn't mean your not doing well. Try and remember that 

5. Things change and evolve not matter what 

 "So we're going to heal, we're going to start again"

6. I now want to pursue mindfulness, practice the art of meditation and relaxation to achieve my full potential 

7. EMBRACE THINGS, YOU CAN TURN THINGS AROUND

8. You are here for a reason, no less than anyone else 

9. Create, the studio is there for a reason 

10.  Breathe


Since coming home I have started to appreciate to quiet, it's making me tune into myself, making me feel in control.



 Are we ever fully in control?























I feel ready, I feel more alive 
























I am 

























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Sequences of photos are common within my SD card. I love how you're able to capture so many fleeting moments within a digital camera but it does have a downside. During the summer I bought five disposable cameras from Tesco, inspired by Sam Cornwell. The procedure made me embrace mistakes. The 'not knowing what's going to come of it' feeling. The excitement of going to get them developed. It's so easy nowadays to capture a moment half heartily and say "I take that again". Ending up with ten or so photos that look pretty much identical, struggling to condense them down to the best one, I find that very hard! 

My desktop is full to the brim with these type of images. I  have a love/hate relationship with photographs like these. It's nice to see motion through photos, I find them organic. They also remind me of Flixels. I would like to return to using Flixels within my work, I did enjoy the process. 

For Christmas I received my first ever polaroid camera. A Fujifilm Instax Mini 90. I have always wanted one as I love watching the image emerge from within, watching the surface turn from the unknown to a reality. 

Ever since completing 'Location Photography' back in my second year of college I have falling head over heels with photography. It's one of my favourite ways of expressing myself. 

I'm really interested in Street Photography. The thought of capturing someone off guard, capturing real life.

 The following are a collection of findings from Pinterest. 

My Pinterest

 "Another Great One @Lynn Anderson Glasgow, Scotland 1968"

"Prams and washing out the back of tenement, Glasgow 1968"

"Raymond Depardon SCOTLAND. Glasgow. 1980. I love Glasgow. It's a culturally and humanly rich, passionate city..."

"Gorbals, Glasgow, 19 April 1960 by allhails via Flickr"

"Colin Jones Glasgow 1961"

Found Websites 

Street Hunters

Eric Kim

I would like to explore the site in depth by taking photographs of my surroundings, the people that are occupying the same environment as me. 

I find it quite hard to keep up to date with my Blogger, I can't half heartily produce a post, I need time to plan and develop from my notes. With photography I'm most active on Instagram: 

My Instagram