Friday, 31 January 2014

Continued shooting


My next step was to take the same idea (use of mannequins, hopefully other objects at hand) but simply to a different environment, to add to this strange collection and see if the images work together as a series. Waiting for grey/dreary weather was intended, as it adds to the lost nature of my work, a cloudy image in my mind. I decided to follow through with a minimalistic style, no complications within the frame but the landscape and the object. How do the two relate to each other? Well they don't relate at all, why on Earth should they. We have a cast of a male's 'nether-region' in the middle of a crop field (cabbages/potatoes?). I think that's the point of this, that there is no actual point but to see what I (and potentially others) would think about it. Personally, this is a field where I walked my dog for many years, circling three times a week. The field I can relate to, the object I can't. What do I think when I see this alien object there? I'm not perfectly sure in all honesty, but I link it to some bizarre Dali/Magritte image where juxtaposition and symbolism work hand in hand. Some make sense once analysed, some shouldn't make sense at all.



I was advised to bring in different objects (to explore with other meanings than just mannequin parts), and unsure what to bring and attempting to avoid cliche's, I wanted something large, structural, something of a strange shape. A narrow shelving unit took my eye, and put against a dreary and completely different environment would work as a great contrast. Upon inspecting the photographs, they take a minimalistic and sculptural form. The field (surroundings) is the plinth, the object is the sculpture. 





Again I was intrigued by the images of my partner helping me set up the photographs, standing as this dark figure next to this 'sculpture' and the body language/stature he held whilst attempting to keep it upright. Below, he's hunched over in inspection, and his stature in comparison to the straight cut shelf is an interesting illustration. Below this, his hand is connected to the shelf, still in a hunched position. The shape they form together is intriguing in itself, as if they are fused.









Again, walking away from setting up. His own black figure takes shape on its own, legs acting as stilts whilst the red block needs only itself to stay standing.



Below, almost humorous? 





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