oh this works!
here are my silly pictures........i think about the endless fields a lot now that i am in London..what an intense contradiction!.....funny to think all that green land exist there on its own and we go on with our lives in the city......
hope to see you all soon at my studio....
xxx
Roxani
posted by de-mentored at 7:12 pm
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Hi Roxy, love the photos. I would love to come to your open studios. Hope you are well,
Ninax
like the pic of the cottage, slighly sinister, a crazy house!!
Roxy....I really love the first image here...flattened grass...I have ideas of rolling through fields of grass trying to flatten it all....
..it is quite suggestive in that sense, it's not just a field, or grass...it suggests a presence, or a past presence now an absence....maybe a presence without there actually being a presence...
Katherine.
Katherine I love the flattened grass image. Its funny I was thinking about that while I was up in the field at Wysing (i think i'm missing the field as much as you guys!) because when we were trying to stand the windows up, or when I walked into the middle of the grass to place something, i was walking the grass down. Or the object would fall and flatten it.
It seemed like an important part of the piece as to whether I covered my tracks or not. I mean, it was obvious that someone had been there recently, and to start with my instinct was to make it look as though there hadn't been. But then I realised this is almost an apology I am trying to make for my process and, I if show i was there, its more real in a way.
Because why someone would place objects in a particular place has that trace or presence to it. I think i thought about it more because i was trying to cover my tracks by ruffling the grass up again, but then it just looked like I had tried to hide my tracks which is kind of another layer as well. I suppose it is because I am acting a part when I make the work, because I am imagining that I am the tyep of person who places these objects. but maybe then because the concept is mine in the first place it makes me that person, i've implicated myself in the plot while I was pretending it wasn't me.
I think this was a conversation that nearly happened from something Steven said, or made my think of. It is something about verity I suppose. An example: I think i have come across a lot of people who make things that look like archeological or historical objects but they aren't (like aging a piece of paper with a tea bag for a school history project!)but they aren't exploring the idea of it being a fake, they are just romanticising the aesthetic, or being nolstalgic. I guess its something i'm always afraid of in my work, that i'm pretending that things are something they are not. I know that is part of my work, questioning whether something is real or not, but I don't always feel confident in finding the right path through. Willing suspension of disbelief. One false move and I could blow my cover.
Madx
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