For the past 2 years I have focused on using technology in the creation of artwork. I have looked at the theme of landscape through photography, video, digital realistic paintings and digital abstract images.
This year I want to further develop this theme - exploring landscape through digital media, in particular the ways in which a simple, unedited, photographic image / painting can be digitally explored in a range of ways and then possibly expressed through more traditional media.
I am also very interested in the Situationalist idea of psychgeography and a 'derive' or a 'drift' as a way to explore the known environment in a completely different way in order to "experience our landscape anew, and force us to truly see what we'd otherwise ignore" (Hart, J. 2004). I would like to use the concept of a 'drift' around my local area to explore it in a different way and then try to represent this and create a completely different sort of 'map'.
The work of Ingrid Calame is also interesting in this regard (Berning, 2009). She focuses on the un-noticed, everyday marks of all that has happened at a specific location e.g. the stains, cracks and marks on the pavement. Similar to this I want to use the drift as a way to re-see the landscape and focus on the hidden, passed over aspects, marks, patterns, shapes and colours.
REFERENCES
Berning, D., 2009. Artist Ingrid Calame on how she draws. The Guardian, [online] 19th September. Available at: < http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/sep/19/ingrid-calame-on-drawing-tracing > [Accessed 5/10/12],
Hart, J., 2004. A New Way of Walking. UTNE, [online] July / August. Available at: < http://www.utne.com/2004-07-01/a-new-way-of-walking.aspx > [Accessed 5/10/12]
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