Mini Portfolio
Eleanor MacFarlane February 2014
1. Old School Photos
trial. I min 36
(One of 16 antique/vintage Eastern European school and group
photos I am using for final project. They won’t move just like this, but will
show similar scrutiny.)
2. Found Paintings
trial. I min 44
(I have c.168 Found Painting images I intend to merge
together as part of final moving image piece.)
(These two videos will be layered together – one hour moving
image piece with sound.)
(Both videos have samples of 24 Hour Sibelius sound – am
planning similar sound with phased layers for final project.)
3. Which alters when
it alteration finds
Altered book construction.
(Something I made recently –I am still considering whether
to have an element of installation in final project – similar destabilised
imagery, distorting viewing box, separate or incorporated inside moving image.)
Which alters when it alteration finds
The book is altered by altering how it can be seen; that it
can only be seen through a distorted view.
Les Minorité
Nationales en Europe Centrales by Joseph Chmelař, published in Prague in
1937. Written in French, it relates facts about races, nationalities and minority
groups, just pre WW2. It analyses changes in numbers and distribution, and is
totally dispassionate about any reasons why. It has a folded map in the back
cover, colour-coding areas by ethnicity - coloured in those pastel, cheery
block-prints of the 1930s. I printed a section of the map onto acetate, adding
shadowy images of German bombers - my only intervention or alteration of the
book.
The box construction is made from Fresnel lenses. They
distort at all aspects, making the book appear to move as the viewer moves.
It's simple but complex, and works on vision both as a physical attribute and
perceptive concept. The structure has no surprises - it simply shows itself as
it is, and yet looks ambiguous. The morphing reflects the subject; that all
those demographic shifts utterly depend upon your perspective to give them
meaning, and the perspective that you take exposes your thinking.
The title is from Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare, 1609: Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which
alters when it alteration finds....
In my practice I explore forms of destabilised imagery as a
way of revealing the nature of vision and understanding. I show hidden movements
behind solid things, as a reminder that nothing is really static, that even the
most solidified thought or belief is subject to change.
Mixed media – vintage
book: Les Minorité Nationales en Europe
Centrales by
Joseph Chmelař, Prague, Orbis, 1937; acetate; Fresnel lenses. 18
x 12.5 x 21.5cm Eleanor
MacFarlane 2014
3rd March 2014
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