still waiting on the server details to go with my new phone,with which I hope to be able to post pictures remotely.I hope it starts working soon.
Sunday 23 November 2003
Monday 10 November 2003
Botanical Griping
Went up to Bristol's Botanic Gardens today, to take picture as part of my ongoing project to record some part of their current beauty before they're developed into flats. Had a great time recording all the rotting leaves, lichen and fading autumnal glory, and took over 400 pictures, several of them pretty nice. And then came home and, over 20 minutes or so as my USB card reader painstakingly chuntered through my Microdrive, deleted every one of them by accident. I've been trying to find a recovery tool that'll let me get files out of an emptied trashcan, but je suis un cheapskate and I don't want to pay for it. I suppose I'll wring my hands and just give thanks I was using rechargeable batteries to take the pictures. Shame though, I was looking forward to posting them.
Friday 7 November 2003
picture test
Picture test
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Wednesday 5 November 2003
In The Book Repository
It still remains to be seen exactly how any prospective book arts show will pan out at the library regarding invigilation and security, and it still seems that the display will definitely be on the laying-on-a-table end of things. I got a chance to take a camera along and do a few shots to capture some of the mood of the place. It's a historic building with the usual accretions of later building most public institutions acquire after a few decades. The director's room which has been mooted as a prospective space to mount the show tells the same story the building tells. Its fabric largely intact, but stripped of many of its details, it sports a collection of bureaucratic semiotics and clutter.(Though, admittedly. often neccessary semiotics and clutter such as is the case with the fire escape notices and fire extinguishers.) Years of juggling collections around the building have meant that a pair of grey metal filing cabinets sit obstreperously astride one's field of vision. But it's still a fascinating room: there's still a strong resonance of the room's original purpose coexisting alongside its current undecided state as part of a briskly run institution. I wish it were possible to restore the room, but space is one thing this library doesn't have. I take the point, too, that it's a library, not a museum.
Anyway, here are some pictures. I think it's a fascinating place, and well worth putting some work into. At one time I wanted to develop a show that would have book artists responding to elements from the collections, but it proved too complex at the time. Perhaps something simpler as a pilot will help clear the way?
Friday 31 October 2003
Exhibition at the Library?
It seems that it might be possible to mount an exhibition of artist's books at Bristol Central Library. It's very early days yet, and several projects mooted for this venue previously have sunk without trace. However, this time,, there seems to be a clearly defined space suggested. There seems to be a clearer sense of what may be offered. And, to be honest, I think I've developed a more flexible attitude to what it takes to show work.
However. We shall see. I hope it pans out. I work in the library and have fruitlessly attempted to produce this kind of fusion between my job and my work before. Fingers crossed.
Monday 27 October 2003
Again, this is an image that forms part of a project I've been working on at St Mary Redcliffe here in Bristol. I've been putting together a set of ideas for it that draw on a variety of sources, including an interpretation of the biblical Creation. essentially, I've been trying to find ways to understand and dramatize the experience of the building. This particular image forms the basis for a book I produced earlier this year called "Firmament". I'm hoping I'll get the chance to do more soon.
Sunday 26 October 2003
Off I go
I think I've worked hard enough now. I've got a fair-to-middling idea of what I can and cannot do with this here thing now, so it remains really to stop for the evening and just get my head down for a bit. It's been good finding out how to tweak things a bit so as to make it a bit more peersonalised, and working with it has inspired me to get to work on my (hem hem) real website, which I've barely touched for years, having honest-togod been busy doing something else. But this has actually been fun in a way that printing lots of copies of my books hasn't been recently. I put it down largely to simply not having made much new work of late. This little effort has been a little bit of a creative outlet for me, and I'm starting to feel that I might be able to live up to my own intention of using it as an online sketchbook.
It's now about 3:40, if my clock's right. So I really HAVE to go to bed now, or I might start jabbering.
View image here are someboats we saw a while back during the festival. Still doing little technical explorations here, so forgive me shambling about.
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