Damien Hirst

"By looking death in the face, it's terror is diminished"

Damien Hirst's work I have never fully researched, however I have suddenly become fascinated by his choice of concepts, being oblivious of them before. I feel his work challenges and displays answers for difficult equations asked. His fascination but also understanding of death, I feel puts life/death into a whole new context which for me I'm able to read, understand (to what I know), interpret and become in-turn presented with a whole new line of equations. 

It's nice to be influenced and asked equations for yourself.

Video Artists

Short artist video's just seem to make a large impact in inspiring me within my work, mainly just through the words that they use and the context they are put in. Using these lines I try and interpret them into my work.

I am Thought

First trial of Flash and just experimenting. Need to start thinking more on aesthetics and a final presentation but just wanted to have a go at a very blunt, basic presentation of these words. 

Second trial with sound, allowing the words to match up with the text. Spelling the quote out to you. So annoying however that as soon as I put the file on blogger it no longer matches up...

Beyond The Boundaries

First reaction to Baldessari's work

Within looking at boundaries and being in a place that is outside our sphere that we would not normally go to or even understand, I have decided I would like to look into John Baldessari's work ethics and procedures. In displaying concepts that I have not been aware of. Taking the concept or piece of work and understanding it and then reacting to it. Shown that I have entered this boundary of either not understanding or being aware, and then in turn produce a reaction of how I feel or how I interpreted what I saw. This could be taken with anything. The olympic village and construction where I enter and review my surroundings and then in turn produce a response. The whole idea of a boundary being observed and then broken down / the deconstruction of it. 

The outcomes could range from anything, just of how I feel and the boundary could in turn be anything. 

See the world or characteristics of it for the first time. 

Sound of Silence - Final Piece

JOHN BALDESSARI

Today I went to the Baldessari exhibition at the Tate and was very impressed by his work, taking simplistic (which does not have to mean basic) idea's and turning them into a visual interpretation which could be understood and interpreted in our own specific ways. I feel he questioned visual language and pushed his own ideals into his work. 

Favorite quotes:

"A friend of mine who taught painting had all his students stand on one foot only while painting. If the student was physically off balance a new sense of order would emerge in their work."

"Our obsession with capturing a likeness"

Baldessari used to go around "trying to look between things instead of at things."

It was refreshing and inspirational to see his work as he seemed to have an intimate understanding of projecting his idea's and thought process, presenting what we do not see every day and creating an order through it. Such as "Four portraits of swords aligned." - reconstructing images.

One way to sum up his work could be "THE POWER OF SUGGESTION" which is what I like most about his work. With the image above the Baldessari quotes; "How do we render images to be powerless?"

Therefore he covers the faces or any particular part of the image that supplies information with a very simple color or circle, and therefore we are left to take in or explore the rest of the image. 

However this is only one area of his work which supplies a concept and solution. 

Found this quote in a short video on you tube:

John Baldessari:

“I am very interested in way people look at things, or don’t look at things. We automatically look at somebody face first, if you take that away then they have to look someplace else. Delete one thing after another until there’s only white left and you’ll still be looking at the white. You just want to look at something. You can sort of condition how people look”

 

Sound of Silence "THE PITCH"

Title: Irresolute (means to doubt something or be hesitant towards the unknown.)

Without sound we find replacements or try to improvise with what we know. However what about sounds that we are unaware of or cannot connect to, with the image or scene being presented. 

Within our film we wish to create a sense of isolation due to the lack of an understanding of the sound produced by the event that is happening on the screen. Working on an aesthetic which completely indulges the viewer (a feast for the eyes) which isolates them from the sound even further. Our task, to subconsciously isolate the viewer from the result of not understanding the sound.

Narrative: pure visual language that the viewer may not understand.

Sound of Silence

Without sound we find replacements or try to improvise with what we know. However what about sounds that we are unaware of or cannot connect to. 

Seeing a moving clip of a man walking down a street without any sound, we can interpret the sound of his footsteps and gain an understanding of the clip. However if we are presented with a silent clip where we are unaware of what sound is being produced we are suddenly stuck and isolated without an understanding of what is going on, left in the unknown and unable to interoperate in a comfortable way.