FINAL SHOOT - WATER

This is my final reshoot of the bath photographs. This time i used a deeper bath and filled it as much as i could with water, i opened the curtains of the window by the bath to get light reflections on top of the water. These all work really well. I want to use the bottom two photographs in my final set of photos.

FINAL SHOOT - BANDAGED

Taking my idea of cling film, tape and bandages further i wanted my final images to be bandages to signify pain and to seem uncomfortable. I wanted them to be dirty rather than clean and soft i wanted them to be itchy and dirty. These are 4 of my final images i will be using as they are all really strong. I used inspiration from the postcards i picked up at the tate modern for my poses, i again edited them to make them gritty and grainy.

FINAL SHOOT - HUNG

From my previous research and experimental shoot -twine, i wanted to carry on the idea of hanging myself but this time completely being lifted off the floor... more painful than i thought it would be! I love how these photographs have come out, i have edited them to look gritty and dark and i plan to use the top two photos in my final images.

PROJECTION SHOOT

Postcards from Tate Modern

I found these postcards in the Tate Modern shop, I am using them as inspiration for my poses/positions in my photographs.

KIKI SMITH - untitled 1995

KIKI SMITH - SUENO 1992

DWAYNE SHIRLEY - THIS IS LONDON 2008

Marcel Van Der Vlugt

Bandaged
PHOTOGRAPHER - MARCEL VAN DER VLUGT

When I did my cling film and tape shoot the idea came to my head of other things I could wrap myself up in. Searched for bandages and found these photographs by Marcel Van Der Vlugt i love this idea and I am going to use this idea for one of my final shoots to contrast with the cling film and tape.

Making the invisible wrap around me visible.

CLING FILM SHOOT rough edits

These are my selected favourites roughly edited. I think they work well and create the atmosphere and feeling I wanted to achieve. I have found that the photographs without my head in seem to work better than the decapitated looking ones as you could still see my face and my identity.

Cling Film Shoot Plan

For my cling film shoot to re-experiment with the idea I used in my mini video I am going to combine cling film and black tape to create a wrap around myself, wrapping every limb separately but tight to keep the uncomfortable feeling. I am going to use a black background which I will be lying down on and moving around making different shapes and positions.

Twine 2 experiment

This is my experiment with my re-make and re-master of my twine shoot from my previous experimentation. I need more rope and twine so I can completely suspend myself off the floor. I would also be wearing my black top and black opaque tights still. I want to encorporate dirty skin like in David Sim's photographs I have researched. Same location as last time.

Elliot Lee Hazel

PHOTOGRAPHER - ELLIOT LEE HAZEL

going back to my idea of using white and black I searched through some more magazines and found this image by Elliot Lee Hazel. Love everything being white but it adds more of an innocence to the photographs than what I really want. Love the angle though. With my final twine shoot I might experiment with more angles that I normally do purely because I am taking them of myself and it is convenient to keep to the same set up. BUT I want to push these boundaries...

SHOOT 4 - SKIN AND GLASS

SHOOT 4 - SKIN AND GLASS
A few edited images from shoot 4...

IDEA Shoot 4 - skin and glass

FINAL IDEA FOR SHOOT 4
SKIN AND GLASS
I plan to take photographs of myself in my underwear pressed up against my shower door.. this is the largest area of clear glass/plastic in my house so im having to make do! In my final photos I will have tight shots of my skin to emphasise a small area and being boxed into a small clear cube... the invisible constriction in my mind.

Zana Bayne

PHOTOGRAPHER - ZANA BAYNE

Found this image on google when browsing and loved it. The tightness and confinedness and the thought of how uncomfortable it must be... this is what I am doing for my photoshoot next... black tape and cling film.

The Face Magazine

THE FACE MAGAZINE - unknown photographer

Looking for further inspiration on my twine photoshoot I found this image in a magazine that I had already torn pages from.. so I do not know the photographers name. I love the silhouette idea, which I had earlier on in the porject so I might go back to that idea and experiment with that again. And further experiment with suspending and hanging myself from something.

David James

PHOTOGRAPHER - DAVID JAMES

From looking at the previous image by Francesca Woodman I have searched for further inspiration on the idea... a friend suggested this photographer jsut generally for my research and I came across this photograph. I love this idea of skin up against glass. I am going to explore this in a shoot as well. The challenge being getting no reflection and keeping it so it fits in with my theme and ideas well.

Francesca Woodman - Glass

Francesca Woodman

Italian Vogue - Steven Meisel

ITALIAN VOGUE

PHOTOGRAPHER - STEVEN MEISEL

Looking through some magazines I came across this section in Italian Vogue by Steven Meisel... cling film! what I have been looking for, for so long now even before my videos! Not just cling film but black tape too. Fantastic find I think! Love the idea of individually wrapping the legs rather than how I did it in one of my mini videos.

I am going to experiment with this in one of my final shoots for this project. The idea of being confined and controlled.

David La Chapelle

PHOTOGRAPHER - DAVID LA CHAPELLE

Looking through David La Chapelles book Heaven to Hell I found this image! Just what I have been talking about in my previous post about wrapping or tying myself up with bondage or electrical tape... this is fantastic I love it and I want to experiment with this idea of feeling confined like in my videos with the cling film. I might also experiment again wrapping myself in cling film but using photography this time rather than video.

Peter Ryle

PHOTOGRAPHER - PETER RYLE

Looking back at fashion photography I came across these photographs by Peter Ryle. Love the bondage aspect to these photographs and the make up used. This inspires me to create a similar idea to this, the shiny black fabric reminds me of bondage tape or black electrical tape. I want to experiment using one of them to tie myself up and maybe constrict myself in some way.

Tate Modern - Jarnnis Kounellis

Jarnnis Kounellis
Again looking at presentation ideas I came across this piece by Kounellis I love the repetition that is occuring in my ideas with presentation and this again brings that idea to the front.

Plain white walls with dark images. Objects pinned to the walls with arrows... birds.

Tate Modern - David Alfaro Siqueiros

David Alfaro Siqueiros – cosmos and disaster


Siqueiros opened his Experimental Workshop in New York in 1936. It was a meeting-place for young artists (including Jackson Pollock), where new techniques were developed. Many of the techniques were related to Surrealist automatism, though Siqueiros was never involved with the movement. In Cosmos and Disaster these experiments are evident in the new paints, thickened by grit and splinters. The apocalyptic vision reflects Siqueiros’s despair at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, and he soon volunteered for the International Brigade opposing Franco’s forces.
(From the display caption)

Another image I am going to use in experimenting with projecting images onto myself.

Tate Modern - Maya Deren

Maya Deren – Meshes of the afternoon
The dream-like narrative of Meshes of the Afternoon provides a link between Surrealism and American experimental cinema.
Maya Deren was a filmmaker, writer, theorist, anthropologist and dancer. Her best-known work, Meshes of the Afternoon was made in collaboration with her first husband, the Czech cinematographer Alexander Hammid. The film indicates her fascination with dreams, ritual, psychological states and the manipulation of space and time. Although strongly affiliated with Surrealism, Deren rebuffed such labels, claiming that she was interested in ‘the credibility of the unreal, not the incredibility of the unreal’.
Deren appears as the protagonist in a web of events that traverse the boundaries between dream states and reality. Through rhythmic montage and experimental editing, Deren subverts the established temporal logic of Hollywood cinema. Her character is doubled, tripled and then quadrupled, breaking down any sense of a single coherent identity. Symbolic objects, such as a key and a knife, and actions such as walking and gazing through a window, are repeated and interrupted throughout the film. Shot in the sunlit hills of Los Angeles, the film is nonetheless a dark reverie filled with an air of paranoia, suspicion and impending death. The appearance of a mysterious hooded figure with a mirrored face amplifies the noir atmosphere.
Meshes of the Afternoon was originally made as a silent film. The soundtrack by Deren’s third husband, Teiji Ito, was added in 1959. The film has come to be recognised as one of the most influential in American experimental cinema, directly inspiring filmmakers such as Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage and David Lynch.

Love this video, simply looked at it to get ideas for if i chose to add video to my project but I dont think I will. In the middle of the video they use stop motion to have things appearing on a table.. this gave me the idea for when I experiment with repetition that I could add things to some photographs to add small differences that you would only notice if you looked at it for a while.

Tate Modern - Max Ernst

Max Ernst


Forest and Dove

Forests appear frequently in Ernst’s works and recall his feelings of the ‘enchantment and terror’ of the woods near his childhood home. Forests are a potent symbol in German tradition, and were also adopted by the Surrealist group as a metaphor for the imagination. In this work, a small dove, which Ernst liked to use as a symbol to represent himself, is trapped among menacing trees. The shapes are created using a technique he called ‘grattage’, in which paint is scraped across the canvas to reveal the imprint of objects placed beneath.(caption in gallery)

Jagged forest and one small dove... how I feel. Although I'm not as nice as a dove!

This caught my attention straight away, the title the idea the darkness and how it sucked me in and made me imagine I was that dove in the horrible dark rough forest. I am going to use this image when experimenting with the projector idea I have had.

Tate Modern - Robert Motherwell

Robert Motherwell

Painted on a piece of cardboard attached to part of a wooden crate, Ulysses dates from a period when Motherwell was attracted to Surrealism and experimented with various types of automatism. This painting is named after James Joyce's modernist novel Ulysses, whose ‘stream of consciousness’ technique involved transcribing the free flow of an individual’s thoughts. Joyce's style of writing had a profound effect on Motherwell, who believed that art should be an expression of the innermost thoughts and feelings of the artist.
(From the display caption)

This is another painting I came across that I want to experiment with maybe projecting onto myself for some of ym photographs, I am chosing paintings that make me feel the way I am showing in my photographs for this Depression Project. Again I like the roughness and darkness of the atmophere and the texture it has.

Tate Modern - Julia Sarmento

Juliao Sarmento – Mehr Licht

This image is part of a series of works in which Sarmento screen-printed extracts from philosopher Michel Foucault’s 1963 essay ‘A Preface to Transgression’ onto canvas. This essay examined Georges Bataille’s idea of transgression, arguing that it is only through limits that transgression can be achieved. In the painting the words read ambiguously as they are partially obscured and taken out of context. Such interrupted communication is also expressed through the faceless woman and blank television screen. Desire appears unfulfilled and the only gaze is that of the viewer, caught in the position of voyeur.


Here Sarmento visually interprets the philosopher Georges Bataille’s 1957 book Eroticism through a series of 25 photographs in which a headless female torso is gradually obscured by increasing shadow. The accompanying photo-text panels were written by Sarmento in French. The photographs convey the consumption of the body, which becomes the site of an intensely charged involvement for artist and viewer. In the centre an extract from Bataille’s essay and images of attractive women reflect the philosopher’s speculation that female beauty awakens desire.

I have put this in my research for ideas on presentation... I seem to be drawn to repetition which could be very interesting if its done in the right way like here. The idea of combining drawings and photographs also catches my eye which could work well, using text and image combined could be a good option for my final presentation.