Exploratory Project update

Funny, I thought I had written more and updated the blog about this project, because I have been making alot of notes and taking images, etc. But somehow these have remained in an ether not even as manifest as the virtual world.

I am yet to sort through what to post of all that material, but as the project nears conclusion, the task is already to round up and reflect. Exploring is naturally ongoing, and I decided early on to give up on the idea of finishing a completed work and allow the exploring to lead itself. As a result I have allowed myself to ponder more, and to see where aspects took me. I feel a little delighted in where these meanderings have gone, and the realisations and connections I have made with my thinking. I say delighted, because sometimes the hallmark of rightness is that feeling of rightness.

I had wondered if I would really have much to show for the project other than a whole load of interesting to me images and things to add to the mix or my practice and resolve some other time. While this is true in practical terms, I have reached some valuable conclusions and realisations about my art practice.

I have not followed through the material riveted onto tins as yet, nor the remaking of the embroidered material itself. Nor have I done much more on projecting video onto objects and surfaces - in a way I did enough of that to trial the ideas in anticipation of future works or exhibitions. These things I will return to in future work.

But what did happen during the Exploratory Project, which all link together, was:

The Making Day, using old and new materials together.


http://eleanormacfarlane.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/making-day-march-2012.html

The V&A Seminar about their artist residencies.


http://eleanormacfarlane.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/v-artist-residency-seminar.html

Increasing collection and use of old film images in my moving image.

http://eleanormacfarlane.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/old-movie-photos.html

The by-products of the tin cans and making day.

http://eleanormacfarlane.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/by-products.html


17th April 2012