Experimental

Overall with this project I feel that I have struggled, I have lacked inspiration and felt it hard to feel fully motivated to get work completed. However, once I had found processes that I liked I found that motivation was easy to gain and I completed the work and attended all the sessions that I could to make sure I understood every process that we had looked at.

I think the processes I have chosen are very representative of me and that enabled me to complete work to a high standard.

Photograms-

This was a process I already had experience with and I knew what I wanted to achieve from it I spent hours outside of workshop time developing my work in the darkroom this wasn’t always successful and this was all part of my development and understanding and if I was to take this further I would want to explore different liquids and textures and see how these affect the process of creating images.

Chemographs-

This was a process that was entirely new to me and that I hadn’t had any experience with, this seemed to help me become motivated as I saw it as a new challenge I again spent hours in the darkroom perfecting what I had created, I want to explore different chemicals and perhaps paint to see the different effect each of these will have.

Double exposure-

Although this is a process I have never explored before it is something that I have created unintentionally when moving objects, I feel that I have had some success with this and that overall I am pleased although I would like to try merging a more landscape image with images of people to see what effect I will create, I also want to try digital double exposures as this is completely foreign concept to me.

With this photogram I created it within workshop time, I exposed it for three seconds at Grade Two, this has given me a clear image with which I have used. Then to develop the image I have poured the developer down the image to create something that is very similar to a Chemigram, although it is slightly grey but this is because I haven’t placed this through chemicals at the correct amount of time. 

In the huge darkened hall of the museum’s Building 5, Ms. Holzer has set up two powerful machines to project lines of text spelled out in stark white block letters. Placed at opposite ends of the room, the projectors send verses scrolling across the floor, up the walls and back over the ceiling. Distributed around the floor of the room are giant beanbag chairs, each about 10 feet across; they look like boulders sunk into the ground or a school of beached whales.

The silvery and shadowy light creates a dreamy, lunar effect. The words, which become enlarged gigantically as they crawl up the farthermost walls, seem to shout at the viewer even as an ominous silence prevails. It’s like a postapocalyptic political rally or a rock ’n’ roll light show after all the people have gone.

With the poetry Ms. Holzer has solved a big problem. Since her marvelously succinct Truisms of the late 1970s, the poems she has composed and displayed by various means — from LED signs to carved stone benches — have been turgid and morally hectoring. Now she is using poems by other, better poets.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/arts/design/26holz.html

The third projection artist whom I’ve chosen to look at is Jenny Holzer unlike the previous two artists that I have looked at her work it isn’t images projected onto buildings rather words, short stories that allude to a darker more gruesome side and are likely to be real.I find these to be very powerful messages that have been seen far and wide across the world I have selected what I think are the most powerful of all, and although this is merely my opinion, if given an opportunity I would like to complete work of a similar nature but I have now decided against projections as I couldn’t find anything that I wanted to project.

On 19th November the British Government imposed the Broadcast Media Ban on Sinn Fein and seven other proscribed Republican and Loyalist organisations. The ban was justified at the time as a necessary measure to starve the IRA of the oxygen supply of publicity. However in the absence of media exposure the IRA has not disappeared and the media has become the site where long-standing and entrenched attitudes are reinforced and go unchallenged on a daily basis. This comes at a time when the IRA has escalated its campaign in Britain and Europe and is intent on sickening British public opinion, in the words of Margaret Thatcher, ‘Bringing it home’. Same Difference, Willie Doherty’s new work for Matt’s Gallery, is a slide projection piece with text, which uses four projectors, projecting a static image with changing text onto two of the gallery walls. Same Difference uncovers the emotive use of language which surrounds the media image of Ireland and the IRA in the propaganda war for hearts and minds. This work attempts to break the silence of the media ban, which as a solution ends up evading the very issues which have caused it to be a problem in the first place.

http://www.mattsgallery.org/artists/doherty/exhibition-1.php

I find the pieces very emotive and moving this person could have been anyone. A normal person, but the words label her otherwise and have caused people looking at the installation to change opinions, as I have researched deeply into the background of the piece I have found that many people believe that this has caused a political uprising causing the end of  a social media ban on talking about the IRA. Looking at the piece in a technical aspect I have found that it uses four projectors and projects a static image with different messages. I have included three images of the different pieces of text that brand this person.