Mark Bradford

Link to his page on the Saatchi Gallery in the Abstract America exhibition

The work that has most interested from Bradford is that which is shown below, The way that he has used a rectangular plastic sheeting taken from some form of black hair treatment is contextual and creates a captivating effect, one which reminds me of my 'Pixelation' and 'Data Moshing' work of the last year.

The Devil Beating His Wife - Mark Bradford

detail from same piece below:

Jean Francois Lepage

http://two-eyes.com/ (Lepage's Website)
These images are inspiring the Work that I am developing, The vast landscape contrasted with a dominant figure accentuation by a remote light source. My personal favourite is the low key image on the pier by the lake, the contrast create by the harsh light is the bold imagery that I am looking for in my work.

NEW PROJECT: Subject, Object, Space

Having received a letter from my degree course briefing me on an 'Introductory Project' titled above, I am now in the process of beginning the project.

Having been advised to begin with a space, and from there explore this space in order to find influences for the work. I have decided upon the global non physical space of the internet. Considering I access it like almost everyone else I know on a daily basis, it has to be one of the more dominant spaces in my life.

That settled i headed to a friends for a night of pizza and Xbox, during this i noticed how certain games use a map as a real time geographic of all the players who are currently on the said game at that moment in time. examples can be seen below (lights indicating where the players are in the world):

a better quality version of the map can be seen below

Looking at the map there are the obvious heavy traffic areas of America and Europe, though it was not these florescent blocks that attracted me, it was the sparse and dim singular entities which can be seen dotted around seemingly unique locations such as Niger and Ethiopia, Alaska and Bolivia.

When looking at the people accessing the internet in this way I have an image of such remote landscapes and and such beautiful landscapes within which is being overcrowded by the vast space of the internet, accessed literally through portal like windows of LED screens. I find the contrast quite powerful and it is this that I want to explore in my work.

Wanderer above a sea of fog - Caspar David Friedrich

The image I had of these distant internet users was one which reminded me a lot of the painting above which I first saw on the cover of Mary Shelly's novel 'The Last Man'. His large series of Romantic landscapes contain many figures which stair into the distance, conversely I feel making a series of landscapes in which the viewer or potentially a protagonistic figure is drawn to ignore the landscape and focus on an LED screen would suit my interests well.

The images would be asking the viewer questions of how they see the internet in terms of a 'Space' and whether or not that fact that it is pulling us away from nature is a good thing.  

Some Delightful Animation

Vomit

Taking a more personal approach to the characters that we see regularly in media, I have taken a mass number of tv and film characters, the arrangement of the faces creates a bumpy vomit like texture which I wanted use as a methaphor for the huge number of these fictional characters that we ingest on a daily basis. 

taking the pieces a step further I am considering hidding my face contrasting with tha many characters faces, suggesting a lose of identity or shame of inadiquesy

G&G (profanity alert)

Gilbert and George's self portraits below titled 'George the Cunt' and 'Gilbert the Shit'

were shown to me in the article here

''two portraits of the artists as young men adorned with these very legends.'' the use of the word legend here caught my attention in relation to the myth and legend that creat much historical fiction. This idea of declaring yourself as a legend relates very much to the work that I am producing for this project, The decliration of myself as these extreme characters is an area I am currently exploring.

aboive is an interview with the pair, and below is simply a piece of thier work with an interesting explination

The ball is rolling, Slowly . . .

Soooooooooooo
finnaly got my tablet working today and decided to start on my extrusions of real characters, taking them into the bizzare, i remember the huge number of bloopers George W Bush has emassed and found it therefore fitting to portray him as a clown, in heinsight maybe a primeape would have been more fitting, anyway here is my first attempt:

Next I decided to use the same source image that i had used above, and apply it to a mugshot in relation to the work I had been looking at in my last post:

Whilst working on these images I came back to thinking about the personal connection that I have to the concept which I spoke about in my post involving the works of david blandy, with this in mind Chris Cunninghams videos hold some relation, he uses images of his face on various characters within his music videos, something that I may consider doing in my own work.

Come to Daddy - Aphex Twins

Window Licker - Aphex Twins

Im late for work now lol

tadar