aestheticizing

Aestheticizing the Work-place

(digital prints on textured paper)

Priced £15/20 (prices negotiable)

This series of prints were created from objects found in the work-place and stills taken from the ONE DAY IN AMERICA (data bank found at hollyknoxyeoman.blogspot.com).

Work-place objects include - MAR sheet (Medical Administration Sheet), clothing, paintings, bouncy balls

Still images - hot air balloon, swimming pools

These prints were inspired by tie-dye (an activity which for two months I did once a week with special needs groups). Through the use of angle and lighting these objects take on a new form as an indistinguishable colour abstraction.



Mobile Land (Bach's got a Text)

Still image from Mobile Land (Bach's got a Text) - a video recorded from the internet, reworked, then imported to a mobile device then recorded again for final degree show installation (viewed on a mobile device, fingers crossed my ex-phone can stay alive till then and for the duration).

The reworking and re-recording of this piece of footage "retrofies" it whilst also making it indecipherable of when and where it could be. Presented on a mobile it loses more of its texture, caught between being a still and a moving image, the exact opposite of what one is used to when viewing digital work, this lack of visual and contextual information is something which we are becoming more and more unfamiliar in the dichotomy between the information technology age.

This work will be one of many video pieces which acts as a guide to more personal narratives within my work  juxtaposed to the broader themes found in the presentation of the clerical, bespoke, house-hold and out and out fugly of some of the objects installed. Themes surrounding thoughts on inclusion, neglection, preservation, stagnation, ignorance, education, communication, knowledge, obligation and responsibility in relation to under-exposed strands of existence.

That time there was a big storm and the tree fell down on top of the basketball courts

This documentation though not being directly used in my video work is crucial in the linking of personal narratives within the context of the "language of things" in the exhibiting of objects. Through using the "fragmented" image which in the digital era we have become so accustomed to, through such avenues as social networking and blogging, I am using my own footage and images with images taken by friends to act as a means to appropriate others footage to communicate ideas about a specific day I was working in America in summer 09'. Specifically - 25/6/09.


This documentation was taken exactly 1 year on from this date in Edinburgh just outside my home. I was home alone, had just got in from work, it was roughly 10.45pm I should think. It was high time the dog should be relieving herself, so off we went for a stroll with my video camcorder which was mightily difficult cause it was still rather gusty. It felt necessary to document this because it was a place I spent a lot of my time as a teen but of course I did not realise that in future months to come it/this day would instigate a whole section/facet of my degree show.

25/6/09

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These dates act as a signifier to me of a time which has been totally eclipsed by the media portrayal of another event which also in turn examines how in this age of self-cultivation we are in actual fact waylaying the significance of time, place and memory and prioritising "collective" experience as a means to succeed and conform.

 

Jurassic 5 - Concrete Schoolyard by keepitreal

teenage memories with AK

HYPER-REAL SECONDS

Stills from the making of Hyper-Real Seconds

Still