My plan as of this moment..

At the moment I'm doing a bit of a u-turn on my work and completely focussing on photography and I'm really happy that I'm finally doing this; I've been wanting to do it for so long and I'm not really sure why I never did. Fear of not being good enough maybe?I don't know I wish I knew my own mind sometimes! Anywho here is a rough draft of my artists statement.... My aim is to photgraph spaces in a way that creates a narritive. I want to do this in black and white creating this past- present conflict. I want to photograph outdoor spaces uninhabited by people but with traces of people having been present, leaving it to the viewer to decipher the narritive.

Diana colour photographs

Photo of narritive space

Update on studio work!

I had a pretty good progress review last week; It was suggested that I actually make the phone box a gallery for my work, love that idea but obviously have to have some tutorials you know I love my tutorials. When I college is over I'll just wander around begging people for tutorials! O actually must back track a little, I had a tutorial with Peter Morgan before my progress review who liked my photos especially one in particular (which I'll put up soon) and suggested I just focus on my photography looking for spaces which held a narrative within them. I really liked the idea of focusing on photography because I love to do it just for me but I didn't want to give up on the phone box so I'm really happy that they suggested that other idea in my progress review.

Quote from artist Mark Dion

“My idea of art isn’t necessarily something that provides answers or is decorative or affirmative. I like Goya. I enjoy the still-life tradition, and hunting painting, and things toward the dark side that tend to have a more critical function. That’s what I see as the job of contemporary artists: to function as critical foils to dominant culture. My job as an artist isn’t to satisfy the public. That’s not what I do. I don’t necessarily make people happy. I think the job of the artist is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception, prejudice, and convention…I think it’s really important that artists have an agitational function in culture. No one else seems to.”

Update on my ideas for the phone box

So what I've been thinking is that everyday I would either take a photograph or do a drawing or painting or whatever of the phone box- become nearly obsessed with it. I'd put these up then in the phone box gradually building up more and more. Maybe I'd add in poscards of funny phoneboxes or newspaper clippings to do with phone boxes. This way I feel like I'm adding me to the phonebox while not losing sight of what it is I'm trying to appropriate. Tell me what you think guys....

Photographs taken with the Diana and my film SLR

The first three photographs are from the diana (plastic camera from the 60's that is being re-produced now and has become a bit of a cult camera), I really love them, it's funny though they look a lot better scanned onto the computer than the actual photographs, the scanner seems to pick up the detail. The others are from my SLR and wer taken down by the river in Limerick, I couldn't stop taking pictures that day I really loved the old grey dirty look that was coming from the buildings.