Archive for Locations
Bottles.
Empty bottles with stamped tag, bottle on map also presented.
Found items or pieces from the specific location will be placed in the bottles and given to viewers.
Experiment with tiny scrolls in the bottle.
Once sealed the viewer has the option to break it to reveal what is inside or keep as it is.
Experimenting with found object in bottle, text displaying date and location as a label.
Tiny folded letter inside bottle addressed to the viewer on one side and ‘OPEN’ on the other.
Same idea as above, toying with the idea of breaking it to reveal something inside.
Text inside is handwritten overheard conversations or observations from a location.
Breaking the bottles seal would only give the viewer fragments of conversations, nothing valuable or of worth.
Scroll inside bottle.
Same idea as the letter above.
Experiment on Scotch St.
Slight alterations to the environment
One block coloured in chalk at night, more will be added each night.
Chalk covered brick in alley off West Tower St.
One coloured each night.
Bottles of location.
Small bottles with sections of mini polaroids taken on site, date stamped and presented infront.
Same as above, random organisation of bottles.
Various materials inside bottles combined with mini polaroid and stamp indicating date.
All presented on plinth.
New work- Feb 2011
Small bottles filled with fragments of polariods.
Polaroids taken on scotch street of passers by.
Date stamped from when pic was taken.
Assessed Work -Jan 2011
Split screen projection.
One view on the street, mini spy cam.
The other looking onto the street from first storey window.
Following people, invading their personal space in a public location.
Mini Polaroids and Map with red marker indicating location.
Close up of map and polaroid.
Recordings on street from behind a netted window.
Studio presentation for crit.
Side view of studio space.
Back wall.
Overhead displaying map, photos on the ground. Small tv playing scotch st. footage, view from window.
Detail of map on overhead.
Map on projector.
Table with notebooks etc.
Letter with stamped address, ‘Observations & Overheard conversations’ book, dictaphone, notebooks.
Catalogue of anonymous individuals and photographs.
Photos of individual, observations with date and time handwriten.
Text on tracing paper, images from Scotch St. displayed in digital photo frame.
Sketchbook
Collage experiments
Black and white photographs.
Anonymous passers by, no identity.
Overheard Conversations Notebook.
Observations Notebook.
Overhead projector and photographs. Experiments.
Overhead projector with small map.
Detail of drawn map, hook for string.
Overhead projector. First photo with string indicating location on drawn map.
More photos added.
Small map overlapping drawn map. String indicating site where photos were taken.
Studio
Studio
Studio
Notebooks: Small- Overheard conversations/noises. Other- Observations.
Both have date and time stated.
Length of text. Date top right corner. Times running down left and observations.
Digital photoframe. Photo’s of Scotch Street.
Current work
Photographic documentation from window.
Grid format photos (cant rotate and save!)
Follow piece
Image ofgirl, map indicating where she went and description.
Focusing on one man. Images and text with date and time.
Recent work
Image of scrolls.
Fragments of overheard conversations from the train journey, Edinburgh to Carlisle.
Scrolls hidden and left on the train.
3 Polaroids of diary entry with text.
Polaroid with layered text.
Scrolls, audio with text and documentation of scrolls in location
(train journey from Edinburgh to Carlisle).
Close up. Sewn text with projection.
3 locations. Edinburgh, Carlisle and Brisbane.
Granton Harbour/breakwater work
Grid of images (Stones with text returned to original location)
Plaster cast (Cast of gap in breakwater)
Photo collage (Material with text in gaps on harbour)
Grid of images
Detail
(Memories collected from people who lived in the area when it was thriving)
Selection of stones with recollections.
Cast with engraving.
Text on material wedged between stones on Breakwater.
Site/ Sight
Interactive, multi sensory.
Specific locations of investigation.
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