Images from installation space

back on english soil...

Being back in the studio after a three week trip to Kenya feels really strange... Going from a texturally and culturally rich environment to a bare white walled institutionalised environment is an odd shock to the system! i have the installation space booked for the rest of the day and tomorrow, i'll have to embrace this polar setting to make the most of the space that i've got...

whilst away, and being aware that i'd have this space soon after returning, i'd made some latex samples of interesting textures found surrounding my everyday living space. i also documented each latex sample by taking a photo of where i took the peel from, as after peeling it has proved fairly difficult to tell where i pulled the samples from. i intended to make each piece of latex a size that could be representative of the formatting of a standard photograph. i wanted to steer away from photographic documentation as i was uneasy with how it can be mistaken for a colonial or more political representations of the area, or as just holiday photography...

A looooooong break...

so after Reflective journal hand in and easter holidays i've been away from blogging and the internet for a long old time... but back at home in winchester and back into the rhythm of things at WSA more blogging is definitely on the cards too, i think i need it to help me to maintain a dialogue between the work that i'm producing over long perios of time and between my own work and the work of contemporary artists too.