It is a Photo-shopped variation of one of a series of photographs I took in my first year as a mature Fine Art degree student back in 2000. We had been given, by our most obscure tutor, a project which, after much consultation, seemed to hinge on reflection. I had been told specifically that I needed to 'make props' to facilitate my work.
With that sort of panic-stricken cluelessness, instilled when one does not wish to look a complete fool, I rigged up a frame, demolished a lampshade, acquired some acetate and borrowed my husband's digital camera (another previously undiscovered piece of kit). Put the whole edifice in front of the window and snapped away merrily. (This photo gives some idea of the thing)
Put the resulting photos on display in a 'resources' folder only to be gobsmacked (and smote again with ignorance) at my tutors' massive enthusiasm - undeserved since I hadn't had a clue that I was doing anything of merit.
But I have returned time and time again to that series of photos ... and am now much less chary of pitching in in total ignorance.
I've always assumed that your header somehow involved water and a partly-submerged piece of something wiry like a shopping trolley.
ReplyDeleteI'm deeply impressed that you actually created it from scratch - rather than recognising the form in a pre-existing scene.
One of my favourites of yours (& hanging in the bedroom) is a composition of upturned boat hull, wiggly water reflections, and this acetate series superimposed on each other
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How amazing! Art is all around us if we open our eyes to see it.
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