BLESS THIS SPACE

For the final exhibition we had the task of stripping and preparing each room for the gallery show. I found this part hard as my room on the ground floor has to be used constantly to remove and add objects so it was important for my piece to be moveable within the room. Once the space had be cleared and together as a group we painted and striped the room it did start to feel like a professional and all rounded show.

This shows my first experiments with adding the lighting to the room and what could be done with it. It's important to work around the objects in the room and show how I am taking over the space for myself much like the clubs in Berlin do.

I started to think about my sound piece and how I could develop the aesthetics of the room it's within. I have a large amount of lighting and cables at hand and I found these two examples to be motivating to use light to its best advantage. The We Still Believe is in XOYO a club in London where a candle holder had been fixed above the DJ deck. The other image is Jaqueues Green a house DJ that has a lighting and material sculpture fixed about himself during his live shows.

This shows the final version of the cross going up in the decided place. I chose to place the cross above the door in which my final sound piece is going to signify the place of where Bless This Space will be happening. I also like how part of the cross will be sunk into the frame of the door. Working with the way in which my work has to blend to the space it's in.

I saw this posted on a graduate from the Glasgow School Of Arts Instagram and knew that the simple style of wooden construction is perfect for symbolising the space in which the viewer to stand. Here you can see Cara had made the frame a lot larger to fit a garden inside but a clear doorway is made through the addition of a few simple wooden beams.

This is the progression for the frame that I wanted to create to go within a space to make a platform for the viewer to stand within to view and listen to my sound piece. I wanted it to be a basic frame to allow me to experiment as much as possible with the space it's in and add a large cross to the back of the frame. It was impotent that a tall human could stand in it so it felt as though it was the size of a traditional church confession box.

I knew I wanted the collage piece to be large scale and to fold or fit around a space but the dimensions where hard to decide on. I tried a few different sizes before coming to a large triple A1 size to give maximum impact. In this series of images you can see another student helping my size up a space to fit the cross too.

This is my first wave of large scale prints for one of my sculpture collage piece for the end of year show. You can see how by printing my own imagery and designs in a digital collage way doesn't quite look as mixed media as I was hoping for my large scale cross. I then decided after finding this look to be unsuccessful to re collage these prints together with normal printed imagery and research from my sketchbook and overlay fly posters that I stole from the streets of Berlin.

Here shows my first experiments with some new materials given to me by a technician. After finding out that the theatre and floristry department don't run at my college anymore a whole cupboard of lights, metal and sound equipment gave me a new wave of inspiration for my final major show.

This is my personal favourite graphics piece showing a conversation through typographical medium of two contrasted songs meeting together in the centre to create the final design.

This is a song that sums up Berlin for me. Its a hard, industrial and heavy techno track without any lyrics and one that i cant stop replaying. Drone Logic sounds futuristic and alien while keeping to the techno soul of berlin, it fits perfectly with the concrete bunker of Tresor where it was playing and i full expect it to be within my final show piece. 

A trip to Berlin in the middle of this project is what I needed to be inspired for my final major show. I wanted to explore the nightlife there and how the techno and house scene is what keeps the city alive. What I found most amazing is how the city lets people take over spaces that arnt used anymore and turns them into clubs and party warehouses. This trip not only confirmed my need to create a sound piece for this project, but I recorded some sound clips of the night life to use in a later artwork. BERLIN GIFS

After looking for some research for my church shoot I wanted to study some places of modern worship. I found this place in Portugal hugely inspiring and even though hard to visit anything contemporary due to the Winchester area I live in it's still worthwhile to see how places evolve yet stick to their true values. Portugal - IGREJA do foco

Pitchfork review the album in an article stating ‘For one, it seems that the organ sounds Hecker captured back in that Rejkjavik church represent a certain purity of sound and that the digital noise battering it throughout act as the enemy, the corrosive effect. There's an ongoing struggle between the two that's mirrored in the menacing song titles and gripping cover art. It's important, then, that the album closes with "In the Air III", a track that features almost no interference whatsoever, just the plinking organ by itself.’ - BY Joe Colly - http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15124-ravedeath-1972/

This is one of my favourite images from the set as it was heavily inspired by the Chinese photographer Chen Wei that was showcased in a previous post. The image doesn't show the club in a style that it is normally documented in and because of this it has a much darker mood to the aesthetic. 

I wanted my imagery to be unconventional of normal club photography in the sense that it wasn't showcasing people at their best and has a much darker mood than that of traditional nightlife photography.

A short film i took and edited from a night at photographing Detroit swindle at Junk in southampton. I haven't spent much time using video software so i wanted to keep the film as simple as possible and on a repeated loop so it reflects the mood of the music and the night.