‘Surfacing’ Art Journal

27/07/2009

mighty orb

Filed under: Photography, work in progress — Tags: , — Lesley @ 5:01 pm

Lesley Bricknell (2009) 'Orb' series

Photographs taken during a 2 month period.  This work virtually makes itself.   I just need to observe changes each day in the containers collecting rain water, silt and flotsam in the garden.  A continual process of emptying and re-filling indicative of another British summer.  By way of contrast one of my ‘Preservation’ pieces is currently online at ArtClothText.   I’m not intending to put any further work related to ‘preservation’ anywhere online at the moment.  I need to keep this under wraps for a while.   Assemble, explore new materials, etc.   Maybe some more of work that simply makes itself without my intervention is an attractive one.

Lesley Bricknell 'Orb' series

Lesley Bricknell (2009) ‘Orb’ series (work in progress) photographs

06/04/2009

Re-cap

Filed under: Reflections, Sketchbooks, Writers — Tags: , , — Lesley @ 9:11 am

In the process of putting together samples connected to ‘Cardinal’ recent series of photographs.  Everything red related.  A sense of urgency about it.  I’m up to my old tricks and accumulating  visual and written information on several areas, i.e. sod gown, disrepair, purity, stains etc.  I know from experience that out of all this accumulation  final pieces will emerge.   I am also aware of how rich and beneficial the research process is in the making of those final pieces  but I do sense a need to step back at some stage and re-assess.

‘the shirt we make is stained with our words, our stories’ Margaret Atwood ‘The Red Shirt’

‘her white dress was stained red from pocket to hem for the key was slowly weeping drops of dark red blood’  p.42  C.P. Estes

noticeboard

noticeboard

russet sample

russet sample

red sample

red sample

01/04/2009

Albus

Filed under: Artists, film makers — Tags: , , , , , — Lesley @ 8:48 am

‘Slutswool’ is another fabulous word.  Sod gown and slutswool.  Apparently slutswool means detritus, hair, skin all those things lurking in crevices and between floor boards.  This particular word featured in a paper presented recently at the f:word – Feminist Research Symposium by Kayla Parker, lecturer in Media Arts at the University of Plymouth.

In the film ‘White Body’ (2008) Kayla  has used white modelling clay, cotton thread, granulated sugar,  and slutswool in an exploration of an early childhood experience.  Kayla is an artist and film maker with an interest in animation.  I find her choice of materials intriguing and  appropriate to her intentions.   Her films, for me,  have a ‘tactile’ basis.   Previous films include animation, live footage and drawing on the film base, syrup, red berries, human skin, nail varnish, magnolia petals.  Her work is personal and powerful. We have known each other for several years and I was delighted to receive a guest invitation from her to attend the Symposium.

Dirt, detritus.  I am aware of Ashputtel, Cinders who are dirtied or begrimed within the fairy tale tradition prior to their transformation.  And of the character Golem in Jewish foklore made from dirt.  And of course the penitent’s ashes.  I need to do some research into this seemingly insubstantial and ‘insignificant’ area of concern.

White body

‘White Body’ (2008) HD animation, Kayla Parker © Copyright 2008

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