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Frameless Gallery — Group Exhibition :

‘T R A C E’ 

Private View

London

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© Harriet Le Page 2012

Attempting to make a time laps with images of a breath fading, the images above are a tester for this idea. I’m unsure just how happy I am with the outcome and have tried to make it into a video but so far it’s not been very successful. I’ve had difficulty with the reflection in the mirror, i do not want anything to distract from the breath, this set up has been the most successful. Taking an image directly in front of the mirror catches my reflection and also the surroundings, I think that maybe taking the mirrors into the studio might solve some issues. 

Erased de Kooning Drawing by Robert Rauschenberg (1953) from SFMOMA collection.

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• liquid light
• mirrors
• air brush kit
• fibre based paper 
• black/clear acrylic 
• MDF
• bell jar 
• dehumidifier 

want to get experimenting! 

Breath and light on sensitised paper, Prints on aluminium  

“The rendering of breath with light onto sensitised paper creates evocative records of moments in time, allowing a space in which to contemplate absence, presence and the essence of being. The work explores our exchange with our environment, what we contribute physically and chemically. Making the invisible visible allows us to come face to face with our inner state and draw parallels between the finite and the infinite.” - Jayne Wilton

“The photogram is essentially a captured shadow – a drawing in light of where the object once had been – we are left with a trace of the thing removed. I am drawn to things that have a particular fragility or delicacy to them to the extent that they barely have a physical substance. I am after the sense of something that is slowly emerging or receding in a space. I am trying to capture that moment where it seems simultaneously clear and faint, present and absent.  

In the piece ‘chronology of breath’ The idea of repetition began to interest me, so I began working in a series using the same subject matter in each. Some of the forms in the photograms give the impression of something expanding and contracting or emerging and disappearing like the momentary appearance of breath on a cold shiny surface or perhaps simply the sensation of a slow inhalation and exhalation in your own body.

The subtleties that exist within the photograms force you as the viewer to pause to take them in and require you to take on a particular quiet sensibility to look at them. You are then left just looking and aware of yourself and your own breathing.” - Emily Pugh; Chronology of Breath

This series of images found are in direct correlation with ideas I have had for my work. Although I have different conceptual ideas for my own work, Pugh’s images are an aesthetically beautiful representation of breath through image. I have been thinking about using darkroom processes and experimenting to try and make breath become an object. We cannot see breath and it is a fleeting moment which quickly disappears, and for this reason I want to try and make breath a physical and permanent thing, experimenting with photographs and also different materials such as acrylic, mirrors and maybe even creating an installation. The trace left by breath is a fragile mark which I think needs to be preserved in some way, as to me it is a precious indication of life. 

Hans Haacke Condensation Cube

I’ve been thinking of many ways I can incorporate breath in my artwork. Hans Haacke’s Condensation Cube inspired my ideas of a breathing machine which shows breath on glass appear and disappear in a continuous pattern. I think an illustration of my thoughts might be a better indication of what I want to achieve. - more to come about insulation ideas! 

thedailywhat:

Food For Thought of the Day: Brock “Laser Bread” Davis is playing with his food again.

The artist’s latest addition to his ongoing Food Stuff series is his most haunting yet: Recreations of famous explosions with cauliflower heads.

So far he’s depicted the detonation of an atom bomb over Nagasaki, the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, and the Hindenburg disaster, with potentially more to come.

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Although not directly related to trace in conjunction with my work this body of images really caught my eye. By utilising a bit of intuition and humour, this artist has really made me smile and inspired me by the use of such ideas. In some ways I could suggest that these explosions are man’s doing, so in some ways are man’s trace from times past, and I have really enjoyed the way in which Davis has given such horrifying images a contemporary humourous twist. 

arranjenks:

Nottingham.

4th February 2012.

really like the subtlety and ambiguity of this photograph of breath. i need to keep experimenting with my ideas! 

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