10.04.11

Another gorgeous day, spent time making another paper mache form and tried putting photos onto the surface , unfortunately the printer has run out of ink so at best all the family are magenta at worst they're invisible ! I was trying to create a surface that contained family, friends, pets ; things that are part of my home-life.  I don't yet know what I'm going to do with it but I didn't want it to be flat as I'll treat it as a finished image.

The backing needs to be plain, lighter in colour and the photos need to be rough edged and closer so that they blend together becoming one image. 

I have pictures like this that I put together over the years and I love the fact that I don't have to go to a photo album to see people and occasions that make me feel good, they're right there on my kitchen wall.

Decided to chop up my flower covered form that I made yesterday and thinking about home I glued it together into the shape of a teapot. Then put it with the petals from yesterday , which luckily were still there.

Could relate aspects of this to Andy Goldsworthy in as much as he produces site specific land art which is often temporary.

www.goldsworthy.cc.gla.ac.uk/photography/

My materials are site specific ie. they are home materials put together and shown  in my home setting. This is also temporary and I was lucky to find the petals still there , thanks to the unusual weather. If this had been created in photoshop it would have quite a different feel and it would have lost the feel of integrity and spontaneity  which I hope I've captured

I really love this , it's fun, has loads of movement, is simple has good lines and and shape, and is utterly personal - ticks all my boxes.

I need to play with more ideas like this, I really enjoyed it and it makes me smile.

I still see things like this being incorporated into a single piece giving a feel of my relationship with my home rather than stand alone pieces .With that in mind I'm not going to include Andy Goldsworthy work in my contextual page as much as I admire it,  as my project is about my home not land art.

More people passing through so more cake needed - made lemon drizzle cake which was gorgeous !

Should I be including cookery books as contextual material ? I'll need to consider that one...