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A second set of photographs produced in response to the photographic collages of John Stezaker, the prompt for our most recent Kick-About together. In some of these images, the titular head-piece has been given eyes, fashioned from two pickled onion-sized balls of tights-stuffed-with-fluff, which I decided against using again in other compositions. The eyes, such…
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All of this began simply enough: in response to the Kick-About No.47, try and construct a new face from fragments in a John Stezaker-style, and in so doing, seek to produce something as unsettling as some of the photographer’s sepia chimeras.
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Our last Kick-About, inspired by the writings of Gaston Bachelard, encouraged us to examine our domestic spaces and think about the physical and emotional parameters of home. Now, with John Stezaker’s uneasy marriage between photographic fragments as our starting pointing, we’re exploring issues of identity, affinity and discord.
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With its back tight up against the rise of the woods, and its chalky face looking out over the meadow, the Widow’s House is effortlessly photographic – or do I mean, cinematic? Every time I visit France, I take another photograph of this silent, empty dwelling, drawn to it like an illustration in a book…
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A final set of images inspired by the prompt for The Kick-About #46, a quote from Gaston Bachelard in which he observes there is much more to a house than its geometry alone. I went looking for alternate landscapes in my home, which could speak to the realities of habitation and human activities, and finding…
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In my quest to identify further shameful surfaces in my own home for the purposes of producing some new work for The Kick-About #46, I looked to the kitchen and bathroom, environments characterised by their constant use and various accretions. What I enjoyed about these images in particular is the way they play their games…
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A third collection of photographs produced for The Kick-About #46, making indeterminate landscapes out of those shameful corners of my own home, wherein crumbs, dust, fluff and other errant fibres collect in silent disavowal of cleanliness and good housekeeping.
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Looking a bit like the skeleton of a some primordial beast, the remains of an old groyne poke up through the low tide at Seasalter, taken back in 2008.
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A second collection of photographs inspired by The Kick-About #46, which saw me lying on my belly and folded into the neglected corners of my home, spotlighting the lunar landscapes of dust and fluff I found there.
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My response to this week’s Kick-About prompt – an observation by Gaston Bachelard’s observation on the true dimensions of a house – was in part, inspired by a recent re-watch of Street of Crocodiles by The Brothers Quay, a stop-motion animated short in which the miniature world on screen is characterised by its grime, dust,…
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