When: Sat, 16 February 2019, 8am – 12pm
The making session required some set up. I had pre-planned my session. The goal was to utilise the sustained studio time to create a video of the act of drawing for my Testing Boundaries project. I had been struggling with the concept of the task and finally felt like I was getting somewhere.
I was happy to get most of the set up done before the session started, to be filming whilst streaming and using my computer could have caused complications.
My personal aim of the session was to create work for both the making day and the context of the Testing Boundaries project. I had been struggling with the project from the beginning.
As per usual my fingers has been dipped in many pies and although I was attempting to keep everything linked they were starting to run away with themselves. After a tutorial with Les I felt more focused and knew I wanted to create a video piece to utilise for boundary testing. As I have been preoccupied with drawing again I saw the opportunity to bring both together. I was beginning to make video work for my text pieces so this felt like a natural convergence.
The sessions are so concentrated, this time, with the focus already laid out, it felt great. Previous sessions had felt really forced and not particularly productive.
I feel so comforted by the repetition in the drawing process. The tactility of the materials, the feeling of the abrasion.
I got some great feedback from Rhoda when we looked at the products of the session. She said it had given her clarity to some of the points I had raised in a contextual session previously as she could see the physicality of the material collisions. The small fibers being expelled from the paper as the graphite worked the surface.
The aim is to use the video created in this session to create a film piece where the process is projected onto the product. I don’t know if I will physically project it onto the original or simply overlay and image of the product on to the video digitally. I don't think there will be much difference in outcome but it practicality the digital overly will be easier.
