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Unnamed October 69 - August 70. Recycled lightbox and slides, Chantal Powell, 2009
Detail from Unnamed October 69 - August 70.
This piece originated from a box of poignant slides I came across in a charity shop a while back. The slides depict a year in an anonymous man’s life between October 1969 and August 1970. They show his visits to natural beauty spots and feature himself, his mother and his dog. At first glance I assumed the slides portrayed a lonely life and felt saddened that this box of images may be all that marked his fleeting passage in this life. That however led me to reflect on how we assign value to our lives and why we have a tendency to equate simplicity with a lack of achievement. Is the fulfillment of a life determined by the quality of relationships we establish? By what we experience? The impact we have on others and the world around us?
All 300 feathers are sewn together forming the covering that will be used on the sculptural iron bed piece. I can’t wait to get the pieces of the bed out of the shed and assemble it again and see if it looks as I imagine in my mind with the feathers. A friend who is an excellent photographer has agreed to help me photograph the fully assembled piece so I’ll hopefully be blogging the completed version soon. Until then – check out my spectacular feathers!
. . is one of those people who has ended up in my facebook circle without me being able to quite remember from where, however he is also a pretty cool German artist. His work is a chaotic mixture of painting, collage, and objects and kind of feels like taking a stroll round the Labyrinth with David Bowie. Its bold, unconstrained, and somehow manages to encompass the poetic, the humorous and the bizarre. I like it! Check out his website:
White House, 2008, mixed media. Robert Quint.
What a great holiday! I’m going to let you into the secret of Lyn & Doug’s idyllic piece of French paradise - La Vieille Tinguaie. Lovely hosts and a stunning location – I strongly recommend.
Dean and I got to do some chatting about the Ebony Tower project and I spent some time re-reading and mulling over sections of the story. Using Dean and his lovely wife Rachel as models we took some nighttime photos to start thinking about the light and dark contrasts and sense of secrecy to be used in Dean’s paintings.
The pictures above remind me a little of Gerhard Richter’s i.g. which I blogged previously. Not to add any pressure Dean, but if you could knock out one of those that would be great . . .
I also experimented with taking some obscured self portraits as reflections in the stream. These were to help me start exploring the idea of illusions and suggestions of the unobtainable that I want to incorporate into my pieces for this project.
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