Last Sunday I made a visit to the old St Peters College Seminary in Cardross which is just north of Glasgow.  I traveled by train from Edinburgh through Glasgow then Dumbarton and finally to Cardross.  The idea was to take some photos of my current realisations of my Vessels work.  The Seminary was part of a Catholic Teaching college it has been abandoned since the 80's and is now overgrown and destroyed.. I chose this place due to its fallen utopia aesthetics which allow me to place the Vess...
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Really intrigued by the process and outcomes of Carlos Bunga.  Thoughtful work that makes you enjoy all parts from the starting point through the process to the outcome.  Pretty incredible.






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I am currently writing an essay for college which is looking into the innovative ways various art practices use virtual performances within their work.  One group/collective called Igloo are of interest with regards to my interest and use of space.  In an interview with Igloo they refer to the word Simulacra, which is an idea or concept that nothing is real.  Its worth mentioning this is post modern idea as it describes the world we experience as a series of interlocking illusions, with the m...
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I recently showed some of my new work in a Project Space at ECA.  Feedback seemed positive and motivating.  I have a few more weeks here in Edinburgh before packing up and moving to the States so I will continue experimenting and see what results happen.  Here are some pics..








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Paul Sharits, "Shutter Interface," 1975
 

 
  
Ernie Gehr - Serene Velocity (1970)
    

  iamblichi - sense from nonsense
 
  
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The search for space is not the end.. 
The space I find is there just hidden..
Once one believes its there you are already halfway there..
However space is a metaphor....

Belief of existence opens doors to greater change.

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After a good Christmas, New Year and yes a little time on my snowboard Im back to it working with new ideas for upcoming exhibitions and projects.  I am still working around similar themes however bringing these ideas towards final resolutions.  I have been playing with the idea of space that is hidden yet still has a use and potential.  The idea of using corrugated cardboard and revealing the corrugated space that is designed to protect and contain another space.  I have tried to fill these ...
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My discoveries and experiments within the last month have continued.  From these ideas and findings I have started to realise how my work looks at the idea of potential or possible potential.  On understanding what where or how much potential might lie within or exist I explore ways in which this potential can be manipulated or released.... 

Currently lots of avenues are being explored and new potentials being adopted.. 

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So looking at my results from these experiments I have started to bring elements together.  With the voids I am now looking to see if I can get the similar effects I have seen in the melts.  hence I am now experimenting with bleach and its common use for removing colour.  So continuing with the square paper but now creating the voids similar to the xerox paper but this time letting the medium eat away at the space whilst creating a new space.



I am also looking at how with the melt series I can...
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Whilst using the xerox paper I started thinking on how I could reverse the process, so instead of taking the ink of the paper rather trying to re-apply the ink back to the paper... Here I have used graphite and polish on paper and tracing paper to see how this transfer could work.  I was really trying to re-create some of the effects I had made in the xerox voids whilst also seeing how the new mediums could work..

            

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This process of working with the xerox paper and its qualities and flaws allowed me to keep on discovering new ways in which to expand these ideas..  He are some drawings developed from the voids..

    

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On duplicating my original drawings it gave me thoughts as to the use of the xerox paper.  The dusty texture it creates when scraped was similar to the dust I felt you would find within a space you could not see or access.  If you did access it would be dust that would aid the claustrophobic feeling and with its choking qualities.  I decided to use the paper and manually create duplicates through using the same size and shape piece of paper.. This in turn was the square which has been a const...
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My experiments and development of the escaping space have produced some intriguing shapes and forms.  I have played with different contents of the frozen spaces, including salt and liquid acrylic as well as ink and water.  The effects have been quite different with the salt leaving crystals as the ink and water has evaporated and the solutions that have contained more acrylic have bled less than those with more ink content.  Some of the melts have sat and left a solid shape exactly where the ...
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First one of a series....

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Results of the inner space running out.. It's weird to see how if made its own path and sat on the paper the way it did for thirty hours.  The results seem to work so I am planning on working with this idea in further experiments.

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While updating my blog with these photos the inner space was continually melting and leaving its mark on the paper beneath.  I have no control over this piece and how it unfolds.  I will see in the morning as to how it finally is free.

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These two forms were once one and once apart they change and operate differently.  The outer shell needs and require the inner space to be there to support and consume the space within.  The inner form needs the outer space to maintain its form, without who knows how the inner space will survive and whether it is fair or safe to let this space be released.

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These acetate cubes have been filled with water and frozen.  The idea is to now let the inner space escape and leave its mark to see its full potential if it is not contained.  I have also frozen cubes like these now with ink.  I will post the results as and when.

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The critique was really interesting with other students all showing work from their drawing residencies.  The work covered all approaches with work in sound, video photo, performance and of course drawing. 

My two pieces caused discussion in a few ways firstly my choice to attach the drawings to the wall using black electrical tape and secondly whether they were a pair or not.

The tape happened due to a 50/50 decision as it was either drawing pins or tape.. The pins bent when I tried to put ...
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The 3D cubes I had made I thought worked well representing the balance or not so between inner and outer space.  I thought it would be good to return these to 2D format and work with them from there..
 
          

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Cube inside the greater elevator cube inside the main building cube inside the city cube inside the country cube inside the continent cube inside the hemisphere cube inside the world cube the atmosphere the solar system and galaxy.  

What about the reverse?


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The drawings spawned ideas of the inner space escaping the outer space.  Whilst also there was a dialogue about how the outer space try's to control the inner space kinda like a teenager and parents.  So I thought it might be worth seeing how a 3D form could represent this paternal idea whilst still keeping elements of drawing:

      

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These drawings are all done using a combination of graphite, marker, charcoal and xerox.
As I do not know where the end is or for that matter the start these drawings keep on evolving, the use of the xerox machine is to create multiples without using a computer.  This allows for reference points to go different directions even though they share the same starting point.

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These drawings were done using graphite, bic biro and xerox...
 

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Initial drawings of inner spaces being bigger than those that surround..  I am trying to draw something that I cannot see and in some ways does not exist, however by the same reason is there and is ever present.  The idea of the outside looking in and inside looking out and how the eyes try to adjust to comprehend.  Then the next step is for the brain to then accept that this space may be there and this opens the door to what is in there or what could be in there... Adventure, escape, knowle...
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The lift itself is functional and all the information on the inside reflects its purpose... Stripped back, basic function...

Three floors:

Basement
Ground 
1st

Number of persons: 21
Weight: 1598 kg

Doors Open

Alarm Bell

One Fluorescent Light

One Emergency Light

I hear the phrase, 'move along nothing to see here....' 
However maybe it is the space itself and what it can contain that I should be looking at:

The space alone says it can handle 21 people however on just looking alone you can see the space is n...
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