Forumla Machine 3.0.

 

 

 

   

   

The Formula Machine uses a series of four cups, each filled with either, materials, actions, tools or stimulation words. One is picked from each cup and then filled in to a record sheet to record the words and form the formula. From this I then make the art work. The selection of realisations seen are my favourite from the process and later they are displayed in an exhibition like space I created. This official looking presentation fits in with the official way in which the art was made. 

Overall the work says a lot about who I am. I like organisation and structure. It also begins to question and look at authorship. As I don't always select a formula myself but ask other people to do it, is it their formula? But I am acting upon it to make the art work. If I had asked someone else to make art according to the same formula it would create two completely different works of art. The realisations of each formula seem completely random and disconnected but they are completely associated with one another as they are made from the same process. 

Formula Machine 3.0

Something I'm currently working on. All to be revealed very soon.

Certified Hiding Place

I spent a while researching into the bunkers and compounds that terrorists and political world leaders were hiding out in. As my research concluded there was one underlying factor that was very obvious, in the end they got found. 

As a response to this I made Certified Hiding Place. A place which has officially been designated in the art studio for anyone to hide. When you are here you cannot be found but of course everyone knows where it is because it has officially been put there. 

The Coral Reef - Mike Nelson

Mike Nelson's labyrinth, The Coral Reef, is something that has great significance to my current project. For the past few weeks I've been researching into where corrupt world leaders and terrorists have been found hiding. Nelson's Coral Reef shows different settings and scenarios that could easily be associated with the type of people I've been researching. 

When I went to visit the installation, I found it eery and very scary. It was the feeling of the unknown of what was behind each door that scared me. The realism of it meant that it felt like a possibility to find a stereotype living with in one of the rooms. 

BOUNDARIES

A short film about how far I can push my body, physically with pain and mentally with pain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDsM8Igmzow

Drawing Machine

Drawing Machine: A tool or device used to make marks with out using the hands

My drawing tool worked in the negative. Instead of adding to the page with marks it scratched into the surface and took away the material as a means on mark making.

The tool used a simple idea about making art on the go. The arm movement from walking would scratch away on to the surface attached to the side of the body and make the marks for the drawing. A simple concept at first but with lots of room for development to make it more complex.

Body In Space Video